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calculate the ultimate advantages which must result from this 
union of the student with the practitioner. 
It will be your inclination as well as your privilege to connect 
yourselves with such an Association : but there are duties which 
you owe to yourselves and to it. For your own sakes you will 
take little part in the discussion of those subjects on which 
serious study and considerable experience have not qualified 
you to offer your opinion. Your part of the discussion will 
chiefly consist in endeavouring to elicit that information which 
older and more practised men are competent and willing to give. 
You will not conceive that you are bound, at the sacrifice of 
proper courtesy and legitimate reasoning, to persist in maintain- 
ing every or any principle which you have avowed. Your object 
is improvement ; and even the author of the essay — the defender 
against all antagonists — will never exhibit purer chivalry than 
when he yields to the power of truth. There is one paramount 
duty which you will owe to the Association, — the maintenance 
of kindly feeling among all its members, and the scrutinizing 
examination, and the silent but firm rejection of every one that 
may probably or certainly put to hazard its union, and reputa- 
tion, and usefulness. 
I do not know how our leading article on the first month of our 
scholastic session can be better closed, than by the account which 
Dr. Roget gives of the difference between the patient of the 
human and the veterinary surgeon. They who have already 
seen it in his portion of the Bridgewater Treatises, will not think 
the few moments mispent which are devoted to its reperusal, and 
they to whom it is new cannot fail of being struck with its 
simplicity, its correctness, and its deep and irresistible eloquence. 
“ Confining our inquiries, then, to the more intelligible 
intellectual phenomena displayed by the higher animals, we 
readily trace a gradation which corresponds with the develop- 
ment of the central nervous organ, or brain. That the com- 
parison may be fairly made, however, it is necessary to distin- 
guish those actions which are the result of the exercise of the 
intellectual faculties from those which are called instinctive, and 
are referrible to other sources. The actions of animals appear 
