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* ignorance is weakness.’ You will sooner or later find it so. The 
delusions which many practise upon themselves will, ere long, 
pass away. Appearances may be fair to the eye, but they will 
prove like the apples of Sodom, which, when bitten, fill the mouth 
with ashes. 
“ Although the study of every science presents at first many diffi- * 
culties, yet, if a resolution is formed to overcome them, and the 
mental energies are directed to the accomplishment of that object, 
they speedily disappear, and, like an aerial vision, leave not a trace 
behind: or, to adopt another comparison, although in the road of 
science, conducting to the temple of well-earned fame, there may 
be many asperities, and seemingly impending dangers, they are 
far more imaginary than real, and, by perseverance, the one may 
be rendered smooth and the other avoided, while the flowers which 
luxuriantly grow along the path will regale and refresh the senses. 
And now, lest any words of mine should have fallen listlessly 
on the ear, I will close with the soul-stirring exhortation of Dr. 
Gregory in his address to his pupils, when he was retiring from the 
Professor’s chair. 
“ ‘ If knowledge is power, and you love power and influence— 
pursue it. 
“ ^ If knowledge carry in its train extended usefulness, and you 
love to be extensively useful in your profession and in the world 
—pursue it. 
" If knowledge, united with uprightness, brings esteem and con¬ 
fidence, and you love to be esteemed and confided in—pursue it. 
‘ If knowledge, rightly conducted and directed to noble ends, 
brings you nearer to the fountain of wisdom, and thus makes you 
more happy, while it enlarges your capacity of conferring happiness 
upon others, and you love to be happy and to confer happiness— 
pursue it.’” 
A CASE OF RABIES IN A FOX. 
By Mr. F. KlNG,yzm., V.S., Stanmore. 
Trusting that the history of any case at all connected with 
that dire disease, rabies, will be interesting to your readers, and, 
perhaps, more particularly so to yourself, I am induced to send you 
the history, so far as I am able, of one that has just come under my 
immediate notice: but, first, I may say that I have suffered more 
from that disorder than many other persons, having lost five pointers 
and a spaniel, all of which, with the exception of one, 1 knew to 
have been bitten. Some of my professional brethren may say, 
“ This must have been his own fault.” Possibly it may. 1 low- 
