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Would there were more of the esprit de corps amongst us ! 
We are altogether at a loss to account for the apathy which 
seems to exist in the profession. Surely it cannot be that 
any are satisfied with the position to which it has attained, 
since this does not even approximate what we hope to see it 
reach, and to which it has a right ; far less have we arrived 
at that period when we are justified in indulging in a spirit 
of indifference from an impression that nothing remains to 
be done, or that we are already perfect. All around us bears 
indications of progress, and 66 Onwards ! onwards !” is the 
password. At the present day, science and art cannot stand 
still. Were they to do so, virtually we should retrograde, 
and the civilized world would quickly go back to the pueri- 
lities and vague conjectures of the mediaeval age ; when facts 
were lost sight of in fanciful theories, and crude speculation 
usurped the place of inductive reasoning. With us it would 
be, that we should return to the dark days of farriery and 
the absurd practice of the pretender, having no principles 
to guide us, nor a “ why and a wherefore ” to assign for any 
of our actions ; the no school would then be paramount, and 
the preceptor ignored. 
THE AMERICAN VETERINARY JOURNAL. 
A short time since we received, and noticed with com- 
mendation, the first two or three numbers of the above jour- 
nal, forwarded to us, as we presumed, by its editor, G. H. 
Dadd, M.D. 
We hailed it as an omen for good, and had hoped that 
our professional cousins, with their noble field before them, 
vrould have early entered on its cultivation, and caused it to 
yield fruit in rich abundance. They might have done so, 
and thus have aided in the good cause. Judge our disap- 
pointment, not unmingled with disgust, at receiving a 
packet from America, of handbills, of which the following is 
a copy : 
