People found a great, strong animal that could, if it liked, be just as difficult to manage, and resist just as well as a horse, and yet was quite content with the worst of food, required neither stable nor grooming, worked till it dropped, and never bit or kicked.

So they said, an animal that is strong enough to hurt us, and yet puts up with any kind of treatment, must necessarily be deadly stupid.

That is how it was.

People cannot believe that one may be good-tempered and uncomplaining and yet have any brains.

With them to be wicked and violent and pretentious is to be clever.