Besides, every morning he is harnessed at the same hour, and every evening he is unharnessed at the same hour; every day, at other hours, he has to rest and take his ration of hay and oats.

He has never been under the necessity of thinking about all this, nor of looking ahead or on either side; from one end of the year to the other, he has simply had to pull along guided by the bridle or urged by the whip, his principal motives being only of two kinds: on the one hand more or less hard guidance and urgings, and on the other hand his recalcitrance, laziness and fatigue; he has been obliged to choose between the two.

For eight or ten years, his initiative is reduced to that--no other employment of his free will.

The education of his free will is thus rudimentary or nonexistent.
On the strength of this our (French) system supposes that it is complete and perfect.

We cast the bridle on the young man's neck and hand him over to his own government.