74 now THE HOESE LEARNS 



happens around him, and well remembers the im- 

 pressions and associations he experienced from them 

 proportionately to the degree of their intensity. He 

 remembers particularly well those places, those oc- 

 currences, those things and those circumstances, 

 with which were associated objects or facts from 

 which he experienced good or evil, or which gave 

 him the sentiment of fear, as it is his instinct to 

 seek pleasure and flee pain and flee that which 

 inspires him with fear, and these things make the 

 greatest impression on him. 



He remembers the road that leads homewards, 

 1. e. to his stable, and for this reason he goes more 

 willinglj^ on returning than on leaving home. The 

 post horse goes straight along his road and pays 

 little attention to the things that he sees because 

 he knows tliat his road leads to his stable and is 

 intent on running in order to arrive at the stable; 

 lie is less susceptible to fear on his own road than 

 on another which he does not know. 



If he has been caressed and had oats given him 

 in any place, he returns to it very willingly as he 

 expects to receive these things anew. If after having 



