EDITORIAL OBSERVATIONS, 
475 
‘‘ Diversity is the natural condition of human activity. In 
creating us intelligent and free^ God foresees and permits 
diflferences of opinion.^^ We need not reiterate Avhat we 
have already advanced as to the desirability of each county 
possessing its local association. As a' body, we are suffi¬ 
ciently numerous for this purpose, and who are the certificated 
members of the profession in a county may now be easily 
ascertained by a simple reference to the ^ Register of the 
Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons,’ where they are 
wisely classified for the first time. 
To all this would follow the giving publicity to the trans¬ 
actions of the different associations, for exclusiveness is 
opposed to the spirit of the age, and we are told not to hide 
our light under a bushel. The vantage-ground on which we 
stand at the present daj^ is very high, and the facilities for 
acquiring knowledge correspondingly great. Yet none of 
us know too much, or all that may be known, and even 
what we do know oftentimes requires to be tempered with 
judgment. We remember what Cowper has said on this 
subject: 
“ Knowledge and wisdom, far from being one, 
Have ofttimes no conueetion. Knowledge dwells 
In heads replete with thoughts of other men; 
, Wisdom in minds attentive to their own. 
Knowledge—a rude, unprofitable mass, 
The mere materials v'ith which wisdom builds— 
Till smooth’d, and squared, and fitted to its place, 
Doth but encumber whom it seems t’enrich. 
Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much; ^ 
Wisdom is humble that he knows no more.” 
In thought we are carried back to the time when to us 
was entrusted the editorship of the proceedings of The 
Veterinary Medical Association, For many years a goodly 
volume was annually edited by us, and sometimes we have 
regretted that 'the work was discontinued, as we believe it 
contained much valuable matter. But now all seems silent. 
We should not know that this useful society still existed 
were it not that Mr. Varnell, in his interesting description 
of the morbid parts sent to him, frequently states that he 
