[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