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ON BREEDING. 
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Ars veterinaria post medicinam seeunda cst.— Vegetius. 
ON BREEDING. 
By Mr. Karkeek, of Truro. 
[Continued from p. 18.] 
When mankind existed in that rude and uncultivated state 
which the good Evander describes as the condition of the primary 
natives of Latium before the introduction of arts and sciences, 
“ Queis neque mos neque cultus erat nec jungerc tauros 
Aut componere apes norant, aut parcere parto 
Sed rami atque asper victa venatus alebat,” 
horses were possessed of social principles; they associated in so¬ 
cieties, though not in that gregarious and political union which 
Aristotle has elegantly termed, “Zocv AyeXcciov HcuIlohiTntov,” but 
in societies which depended more on the choice of those that com¬ 
pose them than from any physical necessity. Then the horse, 
like other wild animals, being capable of choosing his climate 
and his food, might be considered as existing in his native purity. 
But man having, in conformity with original appointment, the 
different animals consigned to his dominion, in proportion as he 
became civilized, he reduced to his power those which were en¬ 
dowed with properties capable of assisting him in the enjoyments 
and luxuries of life. 
“ Turn laqueis oaptare feras, et fallere visco 
Inventum; et magnos canibus circumdare saltus.” 
The first occurrence of the horse being mentioned in the sacred 
writings is, when Joseph went up from Egypt to Canaan to bury 
his father Israel: “ There accompanied him both chariots and 
horsemen.” 
In conformity wijh this, we, in a former Number of the The 
Veterinarian, considered the Egyptians, being the first 
civilized people after the deluge, as the first who tamed the horse. 
But if any credit can be attached to the Greek historians, it 
would appear that horses were employed for many years before 
the period alluded to in the sacred writings. 
