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EDITORIAL OBSERVATION'S. 
have a cine to the whole matter, for without labour there 
eau be no hope of excelling, and genius would he of little 
value. 
To methodical labour add perseverance, if you wish for 
ultimate success. To learn what this may accomplish go 
to the coral-reef, and watch the puny polyps ceaselessly at 
work there. Extremely minute is the particle of lime-salt 
from time to time deposited by them, yet at length barriers 
are raised preventing the incursions of the mighty ocean and 
defying the force of its waves. So, too, the bee unwearyinglv 
gathers honey “ from every opening flower,” nor stays her 
labours till she has filled her waxen cells with the sweet 
secretion. We might also refer you to the chalk formation, 
consisting of mere infusorial remains, or that which at the 
present moment is taking place in the vast Pacific and other 
seas, the continual falling to the bottom of showers of 
microscopic shells, forming a layer there to be upheaved at 
some far distant period in the world’s history, to excite merits 
wonder and surprise and to call forth dubious explanations 
of the cause. In nature there is no stagnation nor waste 
of time; all is ceaseless motion; work is everywhere. And 
here we stop,—although it would be easy to go on,—leaving 
much that might be said to be better said by another. We will 
make one quotation, which can be advantageously and easily 
applied bv vou. “ It is your duty to work—a duty vou owe 
to yourselves, to your friends, to your school, to the pro¬ 
fession, and to your patients. In no quality of the mind 
do men differ from each other so remarkablv as in what is 
termed the power of the will, and in the relation which it 
bears to the passions and emotions by the presidence of 
the will. As man is especially distinguished from the animal 
below him, so in the degree of development do not men vary 
more widely than in their intellectual endowments, properly 
so called. Thus, to refer again to the example of men who 
had accomplished some great purpose in life, it was seen that, 
although such men had been by no means invariably distin- 
guished by genius, yet that they had all been remarkable for 
strength of will. In such the will was dominant, subjecting 
and controlling the passions and instincts. Thus they were 
