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has always some secret which he will not divulge, for fear l 
should not in future call him in. Your’s, 
Welter. 
[Tf we guess aright, we think we have a tolerable recollection 
of the penmanship and the style of writing of “ Welter. ” 
There cannot be a better judge of the question at issue. A 
more ardent sportsman and a more honourable man does not 
live. — Y.] 
From Professor Dick, Edinburgh Veterinary College. 
My dear Sir, — I perceive by your leader of last month, that 
some of the profession are of opinion that you are too liberal in 
the “ diffusion of useful knowledge.” They think that, if the 
“ schoolmaster is abroad,” he must be called home, for their own 
especial and exclusive benefit. They wish to set themselves up 
as monopolists of veterinary science, and think that none should 
derive any advantage by it except themselves. 
Now, I cannot help thinking that this is an extremely narrow- 
minded view of the subject, or, indeed, of any subject : and what 
they would here attempt on a smaller scale, is one of those objec- 
tional schemes which we are at this moment trying to abolish on 
a larger in the foreign policy of the country ; for you must know 
that I am an anti-monopolist. The corn and sugar monopolists 
are contending for the same principles. They are afraid that any 
one may undersell them, instead of throwing the market open, 
and trusting to the superiority of their goods for keeping a worse 
article out of the market; nay, they would rather take less profit 
with the monopoly, than, by increasing the consumption, and 
consequently the demand, benefit themselves as well as others. 
Such is always the effect of monopoly : it leads to indolence, 
the production of a worse article, and diminishes the demand. 
And such would be the effect of the adoption of your correspond- 
ents’ suggestions. It would, in my opinion, be a more liberal 
and better policy to increase the scientific nature of their com- 
munications, thereby shewing to the world that thev have not 
studied in vain, but have acquired a knowledge which they can 
apply usefully for those who require their aid ; and also shew, by 
the superiority of those communications, that that knowledge can 
only be acquired by lengthened study and careful investigation. 
By such means the superiority of the scientific practitioner over 
the mere quack must become obvious, and point out the propriety 
of employing him in preference to the other. 
Veterinary knowledge is not surely so easily acquired, that a 
