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some beautiful law of natural selection in marriage among the 
sexes. The love of our mothers is no stronger and no more 
reasonable than the affection of the mare for her colt. All 
these things are hints of unfulfilled destinies, and of activities 
sustaining relative parts in the awful drama we call life and 
death. 
Since man’s responsibility increases, and his powers of 
volition, man’s chiefest happiness taken individually and col¬ 
lectively, is found in the exercise of his freedom for the con¬ 
tinued uplifting of humanity. 
The veterinarian, like the worker in other fields, finds him¬ 
self face to face with many problems which this century of 
the Christian era fails to solve. He is entitled to a recognition 
commensurate with the dignity and worth of his profession. 
The term “ horse doctor ” should be listed with obsolete words 
of opprobrium. His fellowship is with the scientists of all 
schools for investigation. He deserves the co-operation of 
all searchers after truth and its practical application to the 
welfare of the race. The individual who can in the least help 
correct the practice which for commercial gain allows our 
tables to groan with flesh and lacteal fluids concealing germs 
of destruction of human kind, is a law maker as well as a ben¬ 
efactor, whose benediction is holier and more far-reaching 
than the apologies of prayer. 
The usefulness of the veterinarian is not confined to his 
laudable endeavor at treating the ills to which flesh is heir, 
and bringing succor to the suffering ; nor does it cease with its 
effort to arrest the conveyence and transmission of diseased 
conditions found in cattle, to men; nor does it end with his 
suggestions of a regimen of exercise and diet for a determin¬ 
ate result in health ; but he has a still higher mission. He 
follows in the footsteps of the botonist and the horticulturist 
who produce for the use of man better fruits and fruit bear¬ 
ing trees, by their hints for a systematic seed and scion cul¬ 
ture. In the stock-breeding experiments, he suggests truths 
for the perpetuation of the more sterling qualities of animals 
in strains of beauty, speed, strength, endurance, docility ; he 
hints at a study of paternal functions from a higher intellect- 
