PROGRESS OP VETERINARY SCIENCE AND ART. 399 
rinary knowledge throughout the world. The fruit of these 
researches will in due course be given to the world, meanwhile, 
I purpose publishing periodically the results of progress. Be- 
fore further developing my ideas, pure justice impels me to 
acknowledge that they are common to my brother and 
myself, and we have from the very commencement of life in 
the scientific world made common cause, and lived with one 
mind for one purpose. Truly, there is a vast difference in 
the immediate object of our pursuits, devoted as he is to 
the relief of human suffering in his hospital and private 
practice ; but fundamentally our aims are common, and if 
this intellectual fusion prevent us laying* individual claim to 
parts of our works, it is no matter to us. 
To science and art alike we have avov 7 ed intention to 
dedicate our efforts. One word in exposition. There are 
those who, feigning to contemn science, endeavour to seek 
justification in the devotion with which they profess to 
venerate what they call practice. To argue the point would 
be out of the question, for many reasons ; I shall merely 
state my views in the fewest words. In our profession, pre- 
eminently, a man requires for success that both his brains 
and hands be educated. The handicraftsman we confound 
with the juggler, and the stone-breaker; of the, by contrast, so 
called theorist, — oh! prostituted word— we have no higher 
opinion. 
“ Every man,” it is the words of John Bell I quote, “will 
reason well and truly in exact proportion to his acquired 
knowledge, and will act with sense and prudence in exact 
proportion to his sound reasoning If you put in 
motion one whose mind is improved by study and ripe for 
practice, his powers rise in any perilous or agitated scene. . . 
His reasoning is rapid and sure. It is like instinct, direct, 
active, effectual. He thinks, judges, resolves, and acts, at 
once. He reaps advantages from pathology which, (in the 
time of his studies), he did not believe to be so closely allied 
to practice ; he gives commands with an intrepidity, security, 
and firmness, which he is delighted to feel. It is in the 
midst of these scenes of difficulty, that such a man, so 
educated, so inspired, comes to be truly known.” It is 
the inspiration, the education of such a man we have in view. 
We have already announced intention to seek knowledge 
in all quarters for the accomplishment of this aim. It may 
interest others to know something about the mines which 
are to yield the promised lore. To satisfy this desire it 
would be necessary to recount the whole history of our 
scientific pilgrimage, but it is impossible for us to do justice 
