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THE VETERINARIAN, MAY 1, 1859. 
Ne quid falsi dicere audeat, ne quid veri non audeat. 
Cicero. 
IMPORTANCE OF CO-OPERATION. 
Individually, perhaps, but little can be done; collec¬ 
tively, much. Man does not live for himself alone. Much 
of happiness, much of intellectual enjoyment, much of mind- 
progress, arises from the social element of man’s constitu¬ 
tion. There is that which chills in solitude. From the 
beginning it was found not good for man to be alone. Truly 
has it been said that, “ the beautiful is doubly beautiful to 
eyes which see other eyes looking upon the same landscape ; 
especially if the hearts that feel the light of those eyes are 
concordant and friendly. We cannot read a fine verse or 
paragraph without wishing to share its glow with other 
hearts; nor find a star, but we must show it to our best 
friend. We are receiving creatures—imparting creatures ; 
we know nothing of property in thought—we never hoard— 
we give away. We are poor in mind when shut out from- 
others; we are rich in mind, and rejoice instinctively in its 
influence, when thought meets thought, and they quarry 
and build together, or when like gleeful harvesters they bind 
the sheaves together. ***** The basis of all 
social joy is not exact coincidence of opinion, but a conge¬ 
niality of spirit, and a hearty mutual concurrence on the 
great ideas which make up the sum of life. There need 
not, indeed, be union ; often it is better there should not be. 
There must, however, be harmony; there must be a key 
note from which all distances measure themselves, and in 
which the strain comes to its conclusion, or there will be 
discord.” 
The reason why so little is accomplished frequently arises 
from this want of harmony, since to obtain an object it is 
only necessary that a definite plan be laid down and steadily 
persevered in. To will to do a thing is more than half to 
