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EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS. 
domestic subjection, to soften the animosities that divided 
nation from nation, and to keep alive the sometimes flicker¬ 
ing and eclipsed, but never extinguished, flame of liberty. 
Whatsoever the diversity of manners, language, government, 
—whatsoever the political differences that held nations or their 
rulers at variance,—the gentle and beneficent spirit of science 
had supplied a link of international union that had never 
been broken.” 
This subject is one so inviting, so consonant with one’s 
feelings, and withal so true, that we may be tempted again 
to advert to it. 
We think that we have advanced enough to show the inti¬ 
mate union that exists between the medical and the physical 
sciences—that a knowledge of the one is necessary to the 
acquirement of a knowledge of the other; and also of the 
advantages derivable therefrom. Indeed, we believe it to be 
an impossibility profitably or satisfactorily to study the one 
without the other; while the relationship in which we, as a 
profession, stand to the other branch of medicine, clearly 
points out the indispensability of our becoming conversant 
with them, and knowledge always brings its own reward. 
But we shall do well to remember what Lord Bacon has said 
of it, that it “ is not a couch whereupon to rest a searching and 
restless spirit, or a terrace for a wandering and variable mind 
to walk up and down with a fair prospect, or a tower of 
state for a proud mind to raise itself upon, or a fort or com¬ 
manding ground for strife or contention, or a shop for profit 
or sale ; but a rich store-house for the glory of the Creator 
and the relief of man’s estate.” 
PROPOSAL TO RE-ESTABLISH A YETERINARY INSTITUTION 
IN CONNECTION WITH THE ROYAL DUBLIN SOCIETY. 
A portion of the Irish Times has been forwarded to us, 
containing a report of the council meeting of the Royal 
Dublin Society on the above subject, which we append. 
