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The knowledge of how to acquire the confidence 

 and ohediehce of horses is a special aptitude of 

 the peoples to whom horses are indispensable in 

 their life in order to avoid falling into the hands 

 of the enemy. The reason is that such people re- 

 gard them as their most precious thing, as their 

 possible saviours, and therefore treat them with 

 care and love. The horse, in order to furnish his 

 maximum of utility, should be a friend to his rider, 

 and in order that he may be so the rider must 

 treat him with the idea of justice. 



What is Obedience. Whence it comes. 

 Obedience by persuasion. 



To obey is to agree to do a thing suggested 

 by another, it is to fulfil the will of others, to do 

 Avhat another commands you to do. Obedience may 

 be the consequence of a physical force which threa- 

 tens and compels by fear that it may inflict pu- 

 nishment or pain, i. e. by superiority of physical 

 force, or of a moral force or moral influence, of a 

 moral ascendant acquired by one person over ano- 



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