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his nearest and best friend, tells more than volumes what our 
duties are and what our relations are. The peculiar and fur¬ 
ther fact is that a descendant of this fabled race, Chiron, was 
claimed to be the founder of medicine and the teacher of Es- 
culapius. A strange fable you will say—weird, unique and 
unaccounted for; but as it moves down through the ages, 
embodied in stone, in picture and in song, it shall tell you and 
me of the great blessing which the Arab sought and found, 
and also of our own great personal duty to care for and pro¬ 
tect him. 
One gracious fact emerges from a conscientious discharge 
of your duties, and that is that there is underlying all the 
movements of time and society a progress towards something 
better and nobler and truer in our lives. 
In all material things, the pulse and pace of the world has 
been marvellously quickened. Manufactures, travel, elec¬ 
tricity, and all the other concrete forms of progress are well 
known. In 1847 it took eight months to go from New York 
to Oregon. Now one goes in six days. When the battle of 
Waterloo was fought all haste delivered the announcement 
in London in three days, but the news of the battle of Gettys¬ 
burg was known in London in three minutes. In the begin¬ 
ning of the century the human hand performed all the work 
that was done. Now the human hand unaided does nothing. 
If such progress, however, was all that we could boast of, we 
might well despair, and we have reason to thank God that it 
is not all. Greater and far nobler is the progress that has 
been made for humanity—shall I not say the humanities— 
benevolence, kindness, tenderness and all the nobler charities. 
In the last fifty years we have been making a grand fight for 
the humane side of life, and prominent, and above all, stands 
the conscientious care we are giving to dumb animals and 
helpless children. *There is no grander evidence to-day of 
the real progress of modern civilization than the movement 
of this beneficent principle. 
You, gentlemen, may thank your good fortune that you 
can participate in this worthy conflict for justice and kindly 
treatment to the helpless creatures that serve you. My last 
