t, and determines upon its innocence or harm.
A log or stump by the road-side may be, in the imagination of the horse, some
great beast about to pounce upon him; but after you take him up to it and let
him stand by it a little while, and touch it with his nose, and go through his
process of examination, he will not care any thing more about it. And the same
principle and process will have the same effect with any other object, however
frightful in appearance, in which there is no harm. Take a boy that has been
frightened by a false-face or any other object that he could not comprehend
at once; but let him take that face or object in his hands and examine it, and
he will not care anything more about it. This is a demonstration of the same
principle.
With this introduction to the principles of my theory, I shall next attempt
to teach you how to put it into practice, and whatever instructions may follow,
you can rely on as having been proven practical by my own experiments. And knowing
from experience just
