ridecamp@endurance.net: Re: Training our horses: something to ponder

Re: Training our horses: something to ponder

Jan Snyder (jsnyder@td2cad.intel.com)
Mon, 11 Aug 1997 13:56:06 -0700

Margaret (wildt@flash.net> quoted, in part:
>...
>tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we
>err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a
>world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and
>complete, gifted with extensions of the senses that we have lost or
>never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not
>... [Henry Beston, The Outermost House]

Which is to say, "A horse is a horse, of course, of course," BUT...

People who go all mystical over animals (and I have my moments of that)
sometimes forget that good old evolution is still at work on humans and
horses. Only time will tell whether we will evolve in a mutually compatible
direction, and that's totally leaving out the question of how humans
may decide to alter the natural course of evolution. We already are
by selective breeding, but that's nothing compared to real genetic
engineering.

The point about "living by complicated artifice" is so true! Horses
are rather good at providing a connection to the natural world.

-Sallijan
and Charlie (I connected you really good last month, didn't I?)

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