^2 THE EQUILIBRIUM. 



done by acquiring and exercising control 

 over both the forehand and the croup. 



The reader may be tempted to think 

 that nature ought to be expected to look 

 out for these things, and that an animal 

 evolved with four legs ought to use four 

 legs together better than two animals each 

 evolved with two legs can use their four 

 legs together. Undoubtedly he can, but 

 no untrained creature is fit for artificial 

 uses, any more than the raw recruit has 

 the strong and effective carriage of the 

 trained soldier. 



No matter how well balanced a horse 

 may be naturally, the condition of affairs 

 is changed when we put upon his back 

 the weight of a man and his trappings ; 

 and the animal must be taught to conform 

 his carriage to the new disposition of 

 weights and forces. 



