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bor. The Sea- God stiakes in his turn the soil with his trident, and 
he causes to issue a fiery Horse, who begins to rear and to neigh : 
a picture too faithful of the quick and stormy temper of the mas- 
ter of tempests. The people of Athens — a wise people, and lov- 
ing their liberties — had the good sense to prefer the symbol of 
emancipating industry to that of oppressive aristocracy, and found 
the benefit of it. But Rome, I am sure, would have chosen the 
gift of Neptune. If you wish to penetrate the character and 
institutions of the patriarchal world, question the Horse. 
In the patriarchal world — in the Arab tribe, the Horse, com- 
panion of the glory and the dangers of the chief, has the first place 
in his affections ; woman and the child come after. To the horse, 
coquettish cares, tender caresses, and the poetic homage of Atar. 
His genealogical tree is better kept than the family’s, as his locks 
are more artistically smoothed and dressed than those of the wife. 
The reason is, that in the patriarchal world the warrior caste is 
every thing, and that the barbarous father holds right of life and 
death over woman and the child. I dislike to confess it, but 
the oppression of the weak, and the misery of the laborer, are in 
direct ratio to the fortune of the horse. Every revolution which 
raises the people, sinks the horse. I fear much lest this profound 
observation should have escaped the sagacity of historians.'^ 
Every one has heard of the antipathy of the Horse for the bear, 
the elephant, the camel. The Bear symbolizes primitive and sav- 
age equality — the black beast of aristocracy. The Elephant, poor 
in his wardrobe, and whose nakedness is unbecoming, represents 
the industrial indigence of Edenism, a period eminently antipathic 
to the horse, who will hear only of luxury, plumes, and gilded 
caparisons. 
The Camel is the emblem of feminine slavery in the patriarch- 
ate. All aristocracy, all tyrannical power pivots on the oppres- 
* One may easily confirm this statement by comparing the quality of the 
horses used through the country of our free states with that of the horses in 
our slave states. In the former are abundance of strong beasts of burden, 
but for delicate blooded horses, which it is a pleasure to mount, you must re- 
pair where the slavery of the masses legitimates the existence of the gentle- 
man. — T r. 
