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the Laplander and the jocko, and which he has named from its 
resemblance to this last of the quadrumana. 
To this pure and complete exposition of English art and its 
ideal, a last trait remains to be added: the English racer specu- 
lates — his a betting machine — nothing more. 
France, on the other hand, with its one hundred and four mil- 
lions of acres, cannot even produce a sufficient number of war 
horses, for the miserable expense of its cavalry ; that is to say, the 
French nobility has passed from life to death. In fact privileges, 
parchments, rights of seigneury, and other tinsels of human van- 
ity, were buried one night some sixty years since, and the castles 
of the last sons of the Crusades, sold at public auction, have be- 
come properties of the knights of molasses and squires of the 
yard-stick. The yoke of the barbarous conquest is broken, but 
do not believe that Frenchmen are yet free for that reason. 
For if the French territory refuse to produce the war-horse — em- 
blem of the feudal nobility — it produces in abundance the stage- 
horse — emblem of mercantile feudalism, a voracious order which 
commences in all countries by getting possession of the monopoly 
of transportation. 
France is in the hands of stock-jobbers, of bankers, of monop- 
olizers of the public routes. The only horse then which can be 
esteemed and nurtured there is the draught-horse. The other 
was handsomer, though I spend little regret on him. Who 
now shall deliver us from the stage-horse ? One of the most 
inconceivable political follies of this age has been the attempt 
to subject to the same constitutional forms two nations so op- 
posite in characters and breeds of horses, as the French and 
British. The draught-horse will never accommodate himself to 
the discipline which suits the horse of the race course. An idea 
which seems to be marked in the corner with supreme absurdity 
is, to have tried to create a high chamber, an aristocratic and he- 
reditary chamber, in a country which cannot even furnish its own 
contingent of war-horses in time of peace — a country where aris- 
tocracy is gained and lost by a turn of dice, where the agent of 
exchange executes the peer. Once more, no war-horse — no aris- 
tocracy ; consequently no necessity for a chamber of peers : ad- 
