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to deal perhaps more earnestly with these dead weights of 
a community, these enemies to all progress. There may be 
much that is venerable in antiquity ; but times change, and 
advance is stamped on all round us. Shall we alone stand 
still? We trust not. 
For the sake of change merely , no novelty should be 
introduced, but the routine of system is surely to be 
broken in upon by that which will work a lasting improve- 
ment. If then the proposition made be conducive to this 
end, let us strive energetically to accomplish it, and if it be 
new — not sanctioned by the usages of age — it is so much 
the better, as the merit of its introduction will then be ours. 
Ever should it be remembered that if we wish for success 
we must resolve to let nothing which we can help stand in 
its way. No favour, no fear, no sinister motive, above all 
no supposed friends ; and then, when we have made these 
sacrifices, we at least deserve to succeed. 
BOSTON VETERINARY INSTITUTE. 
We have received the prospectus and regulations of the 
“ Boston Veterinary Institute,” incorporated by the legislature 
of Massachusetts, May, 1855 ; and we cannot but sincerely 
wish that all prosperity may attend its establishment. 
We see in this Institution, the germs of much usefulness, 
and it has only surprised us that America has been so long 
ere she acknowledged the advantages that result from an 
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application of scientific principles to veterinary medicine. 
These have, however, now become so obvious that no 
arguments are needed to prove their worth, or necessity of 
adoption. 
In the foundation of the first American veterinary col- 
lege, we perceive a resemblance to the commencement of 
our own ; but our cousins have the advantage in one par- 
ticular over us, as they, at the very outset, have obtained a 
“ charter of incorporation.” We are yet more delighted to 
see that the two professions of Human and Veterinary 
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