[30] Soame Jenyns, 1782.


APPENDIX

PAGE
I.[SPORT AS A TRAINING FOR WAR]149
II.[“BLOODING”]155
III.[THE HUNTING OF GRAVID ANIMALS]158
IV.[DRAG-HUNT VERSUS STAG-HUNT]162
V.[CLAY PIGEON VERSUS LIVE PIGEON]166
VI.[COURSING]170
VII.[THE GENTLE CRAFT]174
VIII.[SPOILING OTHER PEOPLE’S PLEASURE]179

APPENDIX

I
SPORT AS A TRAINING FOR WAR

It is often said, in attempted justification of “sport,” that it is the best training for war. This is true only in the sense that as far as concerns the creation and the perpetuation of a certain aggressive spirit, war and sport are certainly kindred pastimes with a good deal in common. They both date from a prehistoric period when man