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perspective. Could vve hut regard our profession as a body, 
of which we each formed but an item, we should no longer 
contemplate a part instead of the whole ; but by referring every 
thing to our own individual and selfish ends, we split the rays 
of truth, and, consequently, contrive to see only one of the pris- 
matic colours. 
“ Love thyself last : 
Corruption wins not more than honesty. 
Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace 
To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not ; 
Let all the ends thou aiin’st at be thy country’s. 
Thy God’s, and truth’s : then if thou fall’st, O Cromwell, 
Thou fall’st a blessed martyr.” 
In my opinion, nothing can assist the onward advancement 
of our profession more than the unreserved publication of pe- 
riodical works : they bring before the public, in an interesting 
and instructive manner, the passing events of the times, and by 
exciting attention to them, materially tend to diffuse and in- 
crease the accumulation of facts. It is true, there may be, occa- 
sionally, some who will in an ungenerous manner avail them- 
selves of our professional communications ; but a discerning 
public will ever be ready to do justice to well-earned merit. It 
might surely, with equal reason, be said, that the unrestricted 
circulation of Blaine’s, Percivall’s, and other professional works 
was an injury to the profession, and ought to be restricted by 
legal enactment. I fear you will think, like Paganini, I am 
playing only on one string, when I again state my firm con- 
viction, that all these evils arise from one source, and will be 
best remedied by one antidote — a more liberal education of the 
veterinary students. The complaints which you state, of their 
adjourning to public houses to bandy party questions— the 
churlishness and absence of courtesy among themselves, and 
want of due respect for their Professors, arise from a want of 
those principles and habits which inculcate self-respect : without 
this, the mere possession of a diploma from the Veterinary Col- 
lege will never ensure to the uneducated possessor a position in 
society, or a companionship beyond that of grooms and stable- 
helpers. The human mind, like water, will naturally seek its 
level ; and it is only by elevating the education of the veterina- 
rian that we can hope to supply the higher orders of society 
with a why for a wherefore, which their elevated position and 
superior attainments would probably lead them to appreciate. 
The charter which we are now endeavouring to procure will, I 
earnestly hope, be a successful means of raising our profession 
in public estimation ; but I would strongly recommend my pro- 
