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sions) are designed to be but the servants not the masters of 
reason .” Thus, is a grand line of distinction drawn between the 
mind of man and what he may call the mind of the brute. Man, 
however, even in his least civilized condition, -possesses instincts of 
which the brute has no conception ; at the head of which, and of 
all, must be placed that divine aspiration so beautifully expressed 
by Burns, 
“ And if there is no other scene of being, 
Where my insatiate wish may have its fill, 
This something at my heart that heaves for room, 
My best, my dearest part, was made in vain.” 
THE VETERINARIAN, DECEMBER 1, 1847. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. — Cicero. 
With that urbanity and condescension which has all along 
characterized the proceedings of the Home Office in so far as the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons have been concerned in 
them, our worthy President has had transmitted to him, in answer 
to his application, a copy of the Charter for which the London and 
Edinburgh Veterinary Colleges and their respective supporters 
are at this moment petitioners ; to receive and consider which a 
special council — whereof a report will be found in our present 
Number — has within the past month been convened. The ‘‘alter- 
ations” suggested to be made some months ago in the present 
Charter, together with the “ petition” for the new one, already in 
the hands of the Council, had pretty well prepared the minds of 
its members for what the burthen of the said sued-for Charter 
might consist in ; nor have they been doomed, in the main, in any 
preconceived notions they might have formed relative thereto, to 
experience either surprise or disappointment. The new instru- 
ment is based upon the same foundation as served for the sug- 
gested “alterations;” the superstructure, however, is modified, 
in places altogether altered, and is worked out into more lengthi- 
ness and detail than was conspicuous in the document submitted 
