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that if Commissioners are appointed they must go 

 by the evidence and opinions they hear. Now, 

 when disease in animals is the question these opinions 

 must be the opinions of veterinary surgeons. Few 

 people seem to know the uncertainty of all evidence 

 and of all opinion, or how invariably the evidence 

 and opinion of men (even with absolutely honest 

 intentions) take their whole colouring* from their 

 wishes, feeling's and habits of thoug-ht, as modified 

 by education and circumstances ; so that Herbert 

 Spencer lays it down as a law, that the world is 

 ruled not by intellectual processes, but by feeling's, 

 wishes, emotions, desires and character. 



