30 THE MIND OP THE HORSE 



opposition of man, this fact forms the motive, 

 which, whenever he passes by the stable, makes him 

 want to enter it, and he will enter it each time 

 until he has found some one who can prevent him. 

 After having been prevented repeatedly from 

 doing this the idea will come to him that he cannot 

 go there, that he ought not to go there, and this 

 will be the reason for his not going. He first wanted 

 to go to the stable because the stable promised him 

 pleasure, but afterwards does not wish to go there, 

 i. e. renounces his desire to go there, because lie 

 has seen that the desire to go to the stable has 

 brought punishment or pain upon him, which was 

 inflicted upon him when he desired to go there, 

 and because he has seen that he has not been able 

 to go there — because he has been prevented. 



If a man has. ill-treated him and the horse has 

 seen that by kicking he has inspired the man with 

 fear and has made him draw back, this is the 

 motive from which he will always remember to 

 kick and will desire to kick any man who goes 

 near liiin wliom ho fears (although he does not 

 knoAV liim), because he conjectures that he is like 



