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HUMANITY TO ANIMALS. 
or pursuits foreign to this purpose to engage his attention. It 
must be a long, connected, well-studied course, uninterrupted by 
aught beside, that could do justice to the pupil and honour to the 
institution. 
How easily might this be accomplished, and without doing the 
slightest injustice to the professors! Every thing short of it 
will be perfectly delusive. The object of the Association could 
not be accomplished, and the student, and the farmer, and the 
best interests of the country, would be indefensibly sacrificed. 
This is a plain straightforward account of the matter, and we chal¬ 
lenge contradiction from any one connected with the profession. 
The Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Animals held 
its anniversary meeting on the 23d ultimo. No fewer than four 
veterinary surgeons were present; thus testifying their approval 
of the grand principle on which it was founded. One of them, 
expressing the sentiments of his brethren, asserted that there 
was, or ought to be, a kindred feeling between the veterinary 
surgeon and the members of such a society. The practice and 
the reputation of the veterinary surgeon were built, in the first 
place, on science, the appreciation of which, however, must be 
left to his employers and friends; but there was a broader, 
surer basis,—humanity. The objects which he professed, and 
which he zealously laboured to accomplish, was the removal of 
pain, and the prolongation of life, and the increase of enjoy¬ 
ment; and, when he succeeded in this object, he necessarily 
regarded his patient with complacency and with liking. 
Our domesticated animals were, like their masters, subject to 
many painful diseases; but the majority of them arose from the 
injustice and brutality of man, and not from any natural cause. 
Even if they were not cruelly used, if they were not decidedly the 
victims of tyranny, many of their diseases would necessarily arise 
from their servitude. It would be painful to narrate the long 
list of maladies which the simple operation of shoeing entailed on 
the horse. The daily observation and conviction of this would give 
him a still livelier interest in the weal and woe of his patients. 
Again, he could not mingle among them without being struck 
with the noble (jualitics which many of them possess. He 
