A PHILOSOPHICAL AND PRACTICAL TREATISE ON HORSES, AND ON THE MORAL DUTIES OF MAN TOWARDS THE BRUTE CREATION. BY JOHN LAWRENCE. For that which befalleth the fons of men, befalleth beafts; even All go unto one place; all are of the duft, and all turn to duft Sunt enim animalia poft hominem, ita ars veterinaria poft medi- VEGETIUS. Neque omnia, neque nihil. LONDON: PRINTED FOR T. LONGMAN, PATERNOSTER-ROW. 18972. 28 PREFACE. IN N all matters of indifference, I esteem it a due and laudable act of complacence in the individual, to follow eftablished custom-I therefore write a Preface: and, as I have generally observed, that long-winded prefaces are flighted, I am refolved mine fhall not be of that defcription. But I have a motive of greater weight. It behoves me, not only out of that high respect which I owe the Public-but also, in justice to myself, to apologize for the weak and defective, and, too probably, prolix and tedious execution of the enfuing work; which, in truth, is the offspring of a mind not the most brilliant by nature, enfeebled, and rendered confufed and irritable from chronic bodily weakness, and of a memory, at intervals, fcarce fufficiently retentive for the ordinary purposes of life. If it be demanded, why write, then?-My answer is, I have A 2 |