CONCLUDING REMARKS. 
689 
Time warns me to conclude, and which I will do forth¬ 
with, by remarking that if man’s luxuries and pleasures are 
to be immeasurably augmented by the gold fields of Aus¬ 
tralia and California; if his wants and his comforts are to 
be greatly ministred to by the Lobos Islands of Peru, as the 
store house of a material capable of doubling the amount of 
food for the world ; if all this, and more than this, mark 
“ the signs of the times” in which we live ; who can question 
that increased responsibilities are indissolubly united with 
increased advantages ? How then, it may be asked, should 
we act, to whom some important trusts are confided ?—who 
are called to lend a helping hand in the advancement of one 
branch of science, humble though it be. A plain answer must 
suffice. We ought, at the least, to endeavour to make our way 
plain before us, and boldly and honestly walk therein. All 
things around us tell of a mighty and a rapid change. Nature 
seems to be combined with the Arts and Sciences in effecting 
a perfect revolution in this world’s knowledge,—in upheaving 
society from its long-established basis. Seeing this, may we 
not say that advancement must be made, for recession cannot 
be allowed to mark our conduct. 
Remember that the Arts and Sciences will never be per¬ 
mitted, because they were never intended, to be the clogs to 
Nature’s wheels. No! they are mighty engines, to be used by 
man for the benefit of his fellow-man and the glory of his 
Creator. In all our course of action, then, let us ever bear 
in mind, that the time perhaps is not far distant when the 
sound will echo through the vaulted arch of heaven, and be 
reverberated from pole to pole :—“ Behold, I make all things 
new 7 .” 
LIABILITIES OF PROPRIETORS OF SHOEING FORGES. 
On Monday, September 20th, 1852, the coachman of 
A. P—, Esq., brought a bay gelding to my* shop to be shod. 
The foreman asked him, at the time, whether he w r ould call 
for the horse, wffien shod, or whether it should be sent home. 
The coachman at first said, that he w r ould fetch the horse; 
then hesitated; and, lastly, said the horse might be sent 
home. 
The horse w T as accordingly sent home in charge of a lad, 
seventeen years of age, wffio had been from his birth brought 
* The proprietor is a M.R.C.V.S., of known respectability.— Ed. Yet. 
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