. The science of railways . n of men who connectthe carriers of to-day with their progenitorsamong the savage people of the prehistoricperiod. Of all the agencies progressive nations of theworld have utilized in the art of carriage, thehorse has occupied the most important Aryans were unacquainted with him, and fromthis it is gathered that they could not have comefrom the highlands of Central Asia, for it was inthat country, the land of the rising sun, of mys-tery and romance, that the horse was first domes-ticated. Evidences of his presence in Europe,however, are found during the pa
. The science of railways . n of men who connectthe carriers of to-day with their progenitorsamong the savage people of the prehistoricperiod. Of all the agencies progressive nations of theworld have utilized in the art of carriage, thehorse has occupied the most important Aryans were unacquainted with him, and fromthis it is gathered that they could not have comefrom the highlands of Central Asia, for it was inthat country, the land of the rising sun, of mys-tery and romance, that the horse was first domes-ticated. Evidences of his presence in Europe,however, are found during the palseolithic age,where he was used for food. He appears not tohave been at that time larger than a Shetlandpony. He had, however, enormous teeth andjaws. His development is the result of breed-ing. He was used by theGreeks for drawing theirwar chariots,and was thusemployed atthe siege ofTroy. Butthey had notyet learned tomount fable of the Centaur—half horse, half man—is said to have grown out of a belief upon the. OF TRANSPORTATION. 85 part of those who saw a man on horseback forthe first time that the horse and rider wereone. The Egyptians, although rich, luxuriousand worldly wise, had no knowledge of the horsein early times. The builders of the pyramids,who above all sovereigns exercised arbitrarysway over men, did not even possess so simple aluxury as a palanquin. It is probable that theconquest of Mexico by Cortez would not havebeen effected except for the superstition thenatives attached to the horses of the animal was unknown to them.
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