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I pray you to reflect on my career. You will thereby see 
reason for believing that, individually, I do not belong to the 
class of men who live to envy those in positions as eunuchs 
envy lovers. I should be quite satisfied to rest my all on 
competition. Yet, with a full knowledge of circumstances, 
I have deemed the above suggestive remarks (for they 
pretend to no more), advisable. 
The longer I live the more firmly do I grow in the con- 
viction that it is in the intellectual, as in the organic world, 
those works only endure whose growth, though incessant, 
is steadily progressive, not convulsively agitated. Though 
cherishing a stanch spirit of pure liberalism, I am not blind 
to the fact that nature is conservative in her marvellous 
workings ; therefore it is, that in the administration of the 
affairs of individuals, as of societies and of nations, 1 feel 
bound to oppose the doctrine, that partial, that is to say 
progressive, measures fail, where a thorough reform is 
needed. I rejoice that the difference between us is but one 
of incident. I trust that the development I give it may 
tend to render this another illustration of the philosophical 
proposition, that the development of differences is one of 
the soundest bases of unity. 
On this, the first occasion of my publicly addressing you, I 
cannot but tender my thanks for the many proofs of personal 
consideration you favoured me with while your pupil, and of 
friendship since ; proofs in exchange of which, I beg you to 
accept assurances of grateful esteem and unalterable good- 
will from your obedient servant, 
Joseph Sampson Gamgee, 
Assistant-Surgeon to the Royal Free Hospital. 
16, Upper Woburn Place. 
EPITHELIAL CANCER OF THE BLADDER 
OF A HORSE. 
By Messrs. C. and A. Shorten, M.R.C.V.S., Ipswich. 
Diseases of a chronic nature affecting the structure of 
the bladder being of somewhat rare occurrence among the 
animals which are the chief subjects of the veterinary 
surgeon’s care, we avail ourselves of an opportunity afforded 
us by a post-mortem examination made this day, April 3d, of 
sending you a specimen of a tumour within the viscus. The 
following is a brief history of the case in so far as it has 
