4BeatGait: Archives: 2007 Holiday Season

Horse and man alike respond poorly to force.

"For what a horse does under constraint, as Simon says, he does without understanding, and with no more grace than a dancer would show if he was whipped and goaded. Under such treatment horse and man alike will do much more that is ugly than graceful. No, a horse must make the most graceful and brilliant appearance in all respects of his own will with the help of aids."

--Xenophan, 431-355 B.C.E., "On the Art of Horsemanship"
"On Horsemanship" here by Xenophon