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impossibility of ever realising his dream of turning sea-fish 
into domestic animals. Many of the creatures the fish feed 
upon are more mysterious and more beyond our ken than 
are the habits and breeds of the fishes themselves. We are 
not even in the very first stage of understanding them, but 
from the migrations of the fish and the fluctuations of the 
fisheries, we see how slight a change in food and surround- 
ings is of vital importance to their welfare. No, sir, Provi- 
dence knows His own vocation, and exercises His own 
powers. Happily for us, He provides enough for each, 
enough for all, enough for evermore, and a free invitation to 
take as much as we can. Having done so, let us eat with 
thankful hearts. | 
The fishermen have behaved nobly under the suffering 
they haveendured. Whatother industry or profession would 
have stood for ten years the arrogant and impertinent med- 
dling of pure scientific faddists? What other body of men 
would have remained patient and orderly while they saw 
their industry interfered with by rank outsiders? Which of 
us would allow our businesses, created entirely by our own 
unaided skill and energy, to be harassed and controlled by 
the scientific staff of a college, however eminent, if utterly 
without practical knowledge ? 
However, knowledge is increasing, and as soon as the 
public understand the question, the whole mass of legislation 
founded on dense ignorance will be swept away, and the 
