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source of much evil, and has fashion only to urge for its 

 continuance.' 



Professor J. Wortley Axe says : 



' If the public could see and understand the effects of its 

 insidious work on the respiratory and other organs, I do 

 not think its use would be long continued. 



' Eleven years' experience in the post-mortem house and 

 the dissecting-room of our college has made me acquainted 

 with a variety of structural alterations and deformities arising 

 from this cause, which must have rendered life a burden, 

 and shortened its span.' 



Let men, therefore, rise to the required standard, 

 and show the world that the marvellous ' march 

 of intellect ' during the last few years has not passed 

 them by, and left them so far in the rear, showing 

 them as being incapable of grasping these things, 

 and leaving them still in the grip of cruel ignorance 

 and savage barbarity. 



CHAPTER IX 



FOOD AND FEEDING 



Different machines need different kinds of oil, and 

 different horses need different kinds of food to keep 

 them going in health and good order. In Skeaving- 

 ton's ' Modern Farriery' it says: ' In regulating the 

 food of a horse, the first points to be attended to are 

 quality and quantity, which ought to be proportioned 

 to his habit of body or constitution and the nature 

 of his work. If the quality is bad, it will make him 

 foul, and will not afford the same degree of nutri- 

 ment that clean, wholesome food will yield. If he 

 is fed too plentifully for the work or exercise he has, 

 it will make him too fleshy and gross, and probably 



