Scribner's magazine . other instance ofthe application of the term to j^ chanced that horse-sense came tobe used to indicate a sound understand-ing, and in an obscure way, but in amanner common with words, this hasled to a vague implication of mentalcapacity in the animals whence the termis derived. The fact is that our horses,as far as their mental powers are con-cerned, appear to be the least improv-able of our great domesticated animals. Little elastic as the horse aj^pearsto be on the psychic side of its nat-ure, in its j^hysical aspects it is oneof the most plastic of all the form
Scribner's magazine . other instance ofthe application of the term to j^ chanced that horse-sense came tobe used to indicate a sound understand-ing, and in an obscure way, but in amanner common with words, this hasled to a vague implication of mentalcapacity in the animals whence the termis derived. The fact is that our horses,as far as their mental powers are con-cerned, appear to be the least improv-able of our great domesticated animals. Little elastic as the horse aj^pearsto be on the psychic side of its nat-ure, in its j^hysical aspects it is oneof the most plastic of all the formssubjected to the breeders art. It re-quires no more than a glance at thestreets of our large cities to see howgreat is the range in size, form, and car-riage of these animals which may befound in any of our great centres ofcivilization. We readily perceive thatthese variations have a distinct relationto the several divisions of human activ-ity in which this creature has a massive cart-horse, weighing it may. CDr[ovT Exercising the Thoroughbreds. THE HORSE 579 be as mucli as eighteen hundred or two the classic monuments, the olden varie-thousand pounds, heavy limbed, big ties were mere varieties of the pony, theheaded, unwilling to move at a pace small, compact, agile creature which had ill \ «^;;• fir X, m .g » ^ i ^
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