MORAL FACULTIES OF BRUTES. 
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they not? They belong to a minor class, but they are valuable : 
we find them so, and woe betide the surly fellow who is insensi¬ 
ble to their necessity and their power. 
But we are transgressing; the limits of our leading article. We 
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shall take higher, far higher ground when we resume our subject. 
lirbieUR 
Quid sit pulclirum, quid turpe, quid utile, quid non.— IIor. 
Remarks on the Condition of Hunters ; the Choice of Horses; 
and their Management; in a series of familiar Letters , origi¬ 
nally published in the Sporting Magazine . By Nimrod. 
Riding-masters, racers, grooms, and foxhunters, have, each 
in their turn, made such free and unwarrantable incursions into 
the territory of the veterinarian, that, were we at all disposed 
to a vindictive turn of mind, we might jump at such an op¬ 
portunity as the present work affords to shew these gentry that, 
however knowing they may in their inw T ard hearts conceive them¬ 
selves to be as practical horsemen or grooms, they are, all of them, 
strangely “ abroad,” when they come to ‘‘throw off’’ in our 
“ country.” Ne sutor ultra crepidam is a motto it behoves us 
all to bear in mind through life; otherwise, though we may do 
a great deal of good in our own way , we shall, by intermeddling, 
do a monstrous deal of harm in the province of some of our 
neighbours. So indisposed, however, are we to take any such 
paltry advantage—nay, so desirous are we that each party should 
know and keep his special boundary, and not poach upon the 
other’s manor—that, rather than raise up any differences between 
them, it shall be our duty, on the present occasion, to shew how 
reciprocally serviceable their knowledge may prove to one 
another, and how general, useful, and valuable, the two may 
become, when judiciously and scientifically combined. 
In former times, professors of equitation ranked among the 
most potent arbiters of every matter and thing concerning horses: 
in later times, grooms and sportsmen got the better of them; and 
their decision on like matters (like that of an appeal to the Jockey 
Club) became final. Since, however, veterinary science has 
darted its beams through the clouded atmosphere, by which 
both these sects have been at all times surrounded, horse-con¬ 
cerns have undergone quite a revolution ; or rather (to speak 
more to the point) a revolution has commenced, which is now, 
with more or less rapidity, in every quarter, though more in some 
than in others, progressing; and which, in the end, most certainly 
must put an end to the sovereignty of grooms and jockeys, as it 
has already almost extinguished the once paramount power of 
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