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THE ROYAL VETERINARY COLLEGE. 
their endeavours to serve every professional interest to the full by 
the provisions of the charter alone, they have deliberately consi- 
dered every law, examined one by one its clauses, and finally de- 
termined on its adoption only after the fullest conviction on their 
part that it was for the general benefit and advantage of the mem- 
bers of the veterinary profession. We regret that the schools 
should have manifested any opposition to the charter, and the 
more that they should have done so after the fullest understanding 
on the part of those under whose direction it was drawn up, that 
they had concurred in every thing contained therein. We do not 
pretend to know the precise grounds on which fault is found with 
the charter ; but this we do know and can vouch for — that private 
ends were neither in thought , word, nor deed, sought after by those 
who have laboured much and long to concoct and perfect an 
approved instrument. Surely, that which tends to the good of the 
profession at large must tend to the advantage of the schools of 
professional education ; and surely, the more thriving the state of 
the profession the greater must be the demand for veterinary 
surgeons, and the greater the influx into the schools of pupils. It 
is no more the interest for the schools to set themselves up in op- 
position to the profession than it is for the latter to do any thing 
to the injury of the schools : together they constitute but one house, 
and woe to that house if it become “ divided against itself.” Better, 
far better, adopt the motto of the Royal College of Veterinary 
Surgeons — vis unita fortior ; for comparatively weak must be 
either party unsupported by the other : and though the profession 
may manage to erect and get licensed fresh schools, it will not 
prove so easy a matter for schools that have quarrelled with the 
profession to obtain the same support elsewhere. We say again, 
and say emphatically to both parties, pray remember that vis 
unita fortior est. 
