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any concern whatever in the subject, or had any knowledge of 
it while of those who gave any thought to the matter, some 
cast ridicule upon the idea of having educated “ horse doctors, 
some appreciated the importance and the value of the sugges¬ 
tion, and some indulged in a little, perhaps, excessive enthusi¬ 
asm in anticipating early results. And amongst them all 
were those who are always to be found when a serious an 
earnest purpose is needed to accomplish a good and use u 
work—men who without being moved by any effervescent ex¬ 
citement, or making any demonstrative exhibition of zeal, 
quietly and resolutely assumed the burden of the enterprise 
and bore it forward over every impediment and against every 
opposition, to the success of which to-day they may honest y 
bC That the movement has at this period accomplished all that 
is to be desired or is attainable, no one will pretend ; muc 
remains to be done, and certainly American veterinary science 
has gained nothing that it can afford to relinquish—it has not 
traveled so far on the road of improvement and mature de¬ 
velopment that it may safely come to a standstill, and cry a 
halt • much less can it venture upon a retrograde movement 
The revolution is a success, and there is a proverb w ic 
affirms that revolutions never go backward. And this one 
has not stood still. There is a demand for new schools; agri¬ 
cultural colleges are creating them ; old universities are insti¬ 
tuting veterinary departments, and States are enacting laws 
for their organization. Until recently it has been necessary to 
seek veterinary education in the Eastern States, but the West, 
with its increasing need in this respect, has claimed her share 
of facilities, and it is now not necessary to travel far or long 
to find them. . . . • „ 
Yes, the revolution in veterinary practice in America is a 
success’, and all we want now is more of the same kind. Yet 
there are discouragements. We hear a cry of danger, and we 
fear there is a severe struggle coming between the true friend 
of veterinary science and those who are moved by mere mer¬ 
cenary considerations, and would so combine business objects 
with the promotion of veterinary science as to inflict irrepara 
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