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reap the fruit; but in the meantime we must not be idle, 
or the harvest will fail to be plentiful. 
<c Many are our joys 
In youth, but oil! what happiness to live 
When every hour brings palpable access 
Of knowledge, and all knowledge is delight . 51 
In concluding this address we would, above all, have you 
remember that what we have stated respecting mind-culture 
may not be attainable by you in your own unassisted strength; 
yet despair not, if you are desirous of excelling, the power 
will be given you from above, in reference to which the in¬ 
junction and the promise are united—“ Ask, and ye shall 
receive.” 
Extracts from British and Foreign Journals, 
HIPPOPHAGY. 
M. Decroix, one of the secretaries of the Society for 
Protection of Animals, lately delivered a lecture at the 
Garden of Acclimatisation of the Bois de Boulogne on the 
alimentary use of horseflesh. After showing, by official data, 
that the supply of butcher’s meat of all kinds, which is so 
necessary to support the strength of man, and enable him to 
bear fatigue and avert disease, is not equal to the demand, 
he showed that if the flesh of disabled horses were introduced 
into public consumption, it w’ould increase the present supply 
of meat by at least one twelfth, and that in Paris especially 
it might daily produce upwards of 2600 kilogrammes of good 
meat, even admitting that the flesh of one third of the horses 
slaughtered were rejected on account of their diseased state— 
a proportion which he considered exaggerated. M. Decroix 
reminded the audience that the illustrious Larrey, in the 
course of his military career, had three times prescribed the 
meat of horses for his patients, and that in Egypt especially 
he had, by the use of this aliment, stopped a scorbutic affec¬ 
tion which had broken out in the army. More recently, he 
added, in the Crimea, two companies of artillery had, by 
Dr. Bauden’s advice, lived entirely upon the flesh of unser- 
