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oculation, tried in Eussia only ten or twelve 

 years ago with perfect success, do not seem to 

 be connected by any link with those made in 

 England a century before, and that the invasion 

 of the so-called CATTLE PLAGUE in 1865 seemed 

 to some men to have introduced a new scourge, 

 which men were not armed and prepared to 

 meet which they were powerless to cure, or 

 to stay in its progress. 



These inquiries, then, have proved, we 

 think, that we are not so helpless as we had 

 imagined to resist the evil. But we cannot 

 help feeling, that we have laid bare in this 

 exposition some most distressing inferences 

 concerning the human mind. For, in truth, 

 can anything be more deplorable, than thus 

 to see the civilized nations of Europe endure, 

 from century to century, these reiterated out- 

 breaks of cattle typhus, and to see likewise 

 that no man of sufficient energy and inde- 

 pendence has yet arisen to tell the truth fear- 

 lessly to the governments and peoples, however 

 painful that truth may be, and to expose the 

 futility of the measures hitherto employed to 

 arrest the scourge ? 



And, on the other hand, is it not most 



