20 THE MIND OF THE HORSE 



reared in our climate are not adapted for the purpo- 

 se of riding as in general they cannot be mastered. 

 Arabian entires may be mastered and mounted but 

 under certain circumstances they may give trouble. 

 It is not true that the horse instinctively feels 

 the superiority of man. The wild horse, which does 

 not feel any such superiority, proves this. The 

 horse reared domestically feels the superiority of 

 man because he sees it from his birth, but man 

 soon loses this superiority if he does not know 

 how to handle him in the right way to maintain 

 it. It may on the other hand be said that tlie 

 wild horse has instinctive fear of man (knowing 

 instinctively that he is an evil creature) is averse 

 from allowing himself to be caught and seeks to 

 escape from man. 



Ideas and feelings — Their origin 



Ideas and feelings 



Which ive may call forth in tlie horse. 



The horse is intelligent, but only within a very 

 limited range of ideas, whicli ahvays relate to liis 



