40 NATURAL HISTORY OF THE DOG. 



Bonal respectability. It ill accords with the boasted "march of 

 intellect," that the study and improvement of any branch of know- 

 ledge should do other than elevate the professor of it. " They 

 manage these things better in France." " Justly convinced, that 

 whatever is useful and humane is honourable also, this enlightened 

 nation encourages brute medicine to the utmost, by the erection 

 of colleges, the appointment of professors, and the granting of 

 diplomas to its students, who then move in honourable competi- 

 tion and association with the practitioners of the parent art. 



