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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from The Ancient Regime by Charles Kingsley: danger; men too swift to be exterminated, too independent to be
enslaved.
But if horsemanship had, in these cases, a levelling tendency it
would have the very opposite when a riding tribe conquered a non-
riding one. The conquerors would, as much as possible, keep the art
and mystery of horsemanship hereditary among themselves, and become
a Ritterschaft or chivalrous caste. And they would be able to do
so: because the conquered race would not care or dare to learn the
new and dangerous art. There are persons, even in England, who can
never learn to ride. There are whole populations in Europe, even
now, when races have become almost indistinguishably mixed, who seem
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