Such is the vocabulary of the new figures of the manège that I have created, and so often executed before the public. As you see, this performance, which appeared so extraordinary that people would not believe it belonged to equestrianism, becomes very simple and comprehensible as soon as you have studied the principles of my method. There is not one of these movements in which is not discovered the application of the precepts I have developed in this book.
But, I repeat, if I have enriched equitation with a new and interesting work, I do not pretend to have attained the farthest limits of the art; and one may come after me, who, if he will study my system and practise it with intelligence, will be able to pass me on the course, and add something yet to the results I have obtained.
CHAPTER X.
SUCCINCT EXPOSITION OF THE METHOD BY QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
Question. What do you understand by force?
Answer. The motive power which results from muscular contraction.
Q. What do you understand by instinctive forces?
A. Those which come from the horse—that is to say, of which he himself determines the employment.