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Title: American turf register and sporting magazine
Year: 1843 (1840s)
Authors: Skinner, J. S., ed
Subjects: Horse-racing Horses Sports
Publisher: Baltimore, Md. : J.S. Skinner
Contributing Library: University of New Hampshire Library
Digitizing Sponsor: University of New Hampshire Library

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e a good man. I cannot con-ceive of distinguished success in this delicate and arduous pursuit,where the practitioner is not endued by nature with those noblepropensities of mind, which, in their development, create esteem,if not respect, among our fellow men. The virtues of benevo-lence, justice, charity and generosity, seem as necessary to inter-est and sustain the breeder in producing and cherishing his choiceyoung animals, as is inalienable affection in a mother towards herchild; and assuredly where those excellent properties exist but ina degree to slightly lead the conduct, such a practice, keepingthem in mild but varied and continual exercise, is best calculatedto increase their force. The time is past when lofty intellectmight excusably seek its gratification in the attainment of princelypower. The dawn of a quiet but clear philosophy, we may hope,is advancing to dispel the fogs and fumes of sottish minds and wildimaginations. The art of printing has made civilized man to look
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NOTES OF AN ATTEMPT TN BREEDINQ. 95 upon the distant savage as his neighbor. The sound of peace isgrateful to the heart, for the cultivated understanding realizes atonce the sin and the absurdity of quarrel. The world graduallylearns that knowledge is power. The white man is exaltedlyconscious, and the opposing barbarian finds it to his cost. Agri-culture, the one great, useful, and agreeable art of life, that fillsthe childish fancy, and soothes the fretted feelings of expiring age,the natural and most honorable occupation of man, must soon re-sume its distinguished right, and be covered with honor in its prime,as it was hailed with wonder at its birth. Then will the scienceof breeding, that employs the good as well as the great propertiesof mind, begin sincerely to be cultivated and understood. Then,it is to be hoped, will mankind learn and observe the fact that dis-positions are innate, and can only be formed through means employedin accordance with the laws of nature, previously t

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