ciations of pain or disapproval should follow 

 immediately on the action performed aud 

 not required Page 114 



The associations AThich are given him for the pur- 

 pose of teaching the actions we desire to 

 teach him to perform should be of things 

 that his intelligence can understand, in the 

 way he can understand them, and of things 

 suited to give rise to the ideas of the actions 

 we desire to teach him to perform, to make 

 liim understand what we wish him to do. 

 The same associations should always be used 

 to indicate the same actions, and the mo- 

 vements it is desired to teach him should 

 be those which his body can make, and for 

 the making of which it has been prepared » 116 



All that is taught him shoiild be taught a little 

 at a time by gradation aud after prepara- 

 tion of his body. Tliese things are also ne- 

 cessary because their absen(!e may cause 

 oppositions and reactions . . . . » 118 



Aetifms, aids, punishments, aud associations which 

 the liorse understands naturally, with which 

 may be associated the actions it is desired 

 to teach him to perform, and by which these 

 may lie taxight him . . . . . » 124 



Things and actions which the liorse does not un- 

 derstand naturally, but which he learns im- 

 mediately by means of associations with the 

 things which he understands, and AYhich it 

 is necessary to teach him, owing to their 

 being a matter of prime necessity with a 

 view to his instriiction . . ^^ -.oy 



