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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
“ Knowledge dwells 
In heads replete with thoughts of other men : 
Wisdom in minds attentive to their own.” 
Or is it that such has been the “ march of mind” of late 
years that the older ones are completely “ distanced” in the 
intellectual race, and are, consequently, “ nowhere”? Yet 
surely it is no proof of wisdom to indulge in a mere use of 
technicalities, which often perplex rather than inform the 
mind of the inquirer, and frequently are resorted to as a 
cloak for ignorance, or a screen for the want of knowledge. 
These, however, are no times for apathy and the folding of 
the hands in ease. All around us is making progress, and we 
cannot, dare not stand still. To insure success in life, pro- 
bity of manners, associated with a love of his vocation, 
and a determination to acquire the possession of principles 
wherewith to be guided in the practice of his profession, are 
all that is necessary on the part of the aspirant. Experience 
is only acquired by time ; and men are no more born with 
the former than they are with beards, which time also gives. 
We have therefore no right to expect from him who is just 
entering on the practice of his profession what we have from 
the veteran in science. 
As this subject has thus been incidentally brought under our 
notice, we may be permitted to state, that we are no friends 
to the paying of posthumous honours, although in this feel- 
ing, we doubt not, we are opposed to “the many.” We are 
not, because we consider that it ministers to the pride of 
the living, if it have not its beginning and its ending there. 
This may sound somewhat censorious, but of what use can 
honours be to the dead? In the grave there can be no con- 
sciousness of them, and the life beyond it needs them not. 
It may be answered, such things act as incentives to the 
living to “ go and do likewise.” Would not the same be 
attained, and better far, were the honour conferred while 
there existed a capability of enjoying and appreciating the 
intention? And this too before the grasshopper becomes a 
burden, or the silver cords are loosened ; so that the closing 
