736 THE DISEASES AND DISORDERS OF THE OX. 



comings ; but still we cannot but tbink tbat we have advanced a 

 little way up the steep and arduous hill of science. So intensely 

 inoportant is the subject we have dealt with, that even if we have 

 achieved but a little, it is still something which can never be lost ; 

 and may God grant that good to the struggling striving human 

 race may come of even our humble work — good not only to this 

 man or to that man, or to that afflicted woman or child only, but 

 to all — to each and all ; for who cannot see that the benefit of 

 all is productive of advantage to each individual ? One thing, 

 happily, can safely be affirmed, and that is, that agriculture is in 

 a better way now than formerly — nay, more, who can doubt that 

 its seeming backward flow was merely apparent, and not real, 

 merely a temporary phase. The recent agricultural depression 

 has probably been due chiefly to bad seasons. With better 

 seasons we shall doubtless have a great revival. Who cannot 

 see that oftentimes many of the worst evils are ultimately pro- 

 ductive of good ? For those struggling ones who fall in the 

 meantime during the distressful and dark days — be well assured 

 He receiveth them into His eternal rest, where they are blessed 

 for ever, and suffer no more ? 



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