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MR. B. CLARK S HIPPODONOMIA. 
times urged, engender a dislike and even disrespect to which we 
obstinately cling, although we find it difEcult to reconcile them to 
our sober and candid j udgment. The assertion of Bernini has good 
sense in it:—“ Tante piu di pregio reca alb opera Pumilta dell’ 
arstista, quanto piu aggiunge di valore al numero la nullita del 
zeroor, in plain English, the modesty of the author added to 
his work, increases its value like a cypher added to any number. 
We have a more serious cause of complaint. We find, in 
various parts of this work, language which we cannot reconcile 
with the courtesy that should guide our usual intercourse, and 
that should, least of all, be forgotten in the discussion of a scien¬ 
tific question. “ Plus aloes, quam mellis habet.” 
Take our author's attacks on Mr. Coleman :—“ I am quite at a 
loss to guess what I have done to offend those personages, the pro¬ 
fessors of the various veterinary colleges ; but by nearly all have I 
been treated basely, by concealing my discoveries from their pupils, 
and by endeavouring to traduce and misrepresent them. Professor 
Coleman, in a most unprovoked manner, has done this; and al¬ 
though he dared not make any open manly attack, which would 
have been quickly answered, he has to his pupils, in secret, used 
all the little arts of defamation."— Preface , p. vii. 
“This egregious nonsense was not noticed in my former edition, 
nor would it have been in this, had I experienced the smallest 
attention and encouragement from this professor of the art, 
whose labour it has been, by false and artful insinuation , and 
sometimes pretended attacks, to misrepresent my writings to the 
class, and destroy the reputation of their author, and from them 
with the public; no doubt at times pretending to praise him, but 
only the more securely to conceal his purpose under the disguise of 
candour and fair conduct!!” —p. 127. 
Again : “ That I might expect no mercy from the smiths, whose 
affairs I had exposed, was quite natural; but that the veterinari¬ 
ans, whose cause I had laboured and gained, should be made, 
by interested knavery (! !), my greatest persecutors, was not to 
be believed."—p. 19. 
At page 56, is the most outrageous thing of all. Mr. Clark is 
speaking of certain “ colleges where nonsense is taught by au¬ 
thority and widely disseminated, and where men have hitherto 
really been placed officially to teach an art which they had them¬ 
selves yet to learn; and where, instead of delivering their opi¬ 
nions with a suspicious diffidence-and wariness, from knowing their 
real situation, they have uttered their absurd dogmas with all the 
confidence of well-ascertained truths; and afterwards, though 
plainly confuted, have persisted, through pride, in maintaining 
them; and, what is worse, when the truth in the clearest evi¬ 
dence lay before them, instead of embracing it joyfully, they have 
