31€ DADD’S VETERINARY MEDICINE AND SURGERY. 
and progressive generation with peculiar force. It is, “ Know 
thyself.” To understand our moral, intellectual, and phiysical 
natures and tendencies should be the business of every one. The 
cultivation of, and proper direction given to, the former, bring us 
within the halc of health, purity, and peace. A knowledge of the 
physical or physiological laws of life, and in practicing fidelity to 
what they teach, places us on the high road to health and long life. 
Anatomical and physiological acquirements are needed by every 
one, in order that we may know ourselves, and thus be able to 
preserve our wondrous mechanism, “the harp of a thousand 
strings,” in its normal condition; for without health we can not 
enjoy life, nor answer the purposes for which we were created. 
We have the testimony of lecrned men, and our own reflective 
minds confirm the facts, that an alarming number of premature 
deaths, and an untold amount of physical infirmities, are the result 
of either our ignorance of, or indifference to, the uncompromising 
laws of Nature. The rational being, free from hereditary taint, 
of mental or physical deformities, comes into the world with all 
that is essential to his future life and happiness. He has within 
his organization a radiant volume of intellectuality, organized, 
compiled, and bound by the Divine hand, the first glimmer of 
which reveals something adapted to present and future wants and 
necessities. The intellectual spark, once ignited, is capable of an 
mdless increase. We can add ray to ray, power on power, until 
the God-like man acquires the mental greatness of a Webster, o1 
the mechanical skill and distinction of a Fulton. We do not 
expect that all can become Websters and Fultons, because we do 
not all practice that invariable perseverance and stern energy 
characteristic of giant intellect and mechanical skill. We are not 
all willing to toil, mentally or physically, with that perseverance 
and industry so necessary to success ; and if we were willing, after 
having attained maturity or manhood, our minds and bodies being 
trained and molded for station and circumstances, are then not so 
well adapted, us in youth, for increase and power. Still, at thia 
period of life, we are not destitute of the means of self-culture, 
We are living illustrations of progressive mental capacities 
which often transpire in men past the meridian of life, who, 
befcre that period, never considered themselves favored in thus 
line. How unfortunate it is, therefore, that the generality of 
wankind should he so indifferent about the science of life, and be 
