THE VETERINARIAN OF THE FUTURE. 
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ings and assuage the pain of “ those who cannot speak.” 
I believe that the secret of success of the veterinarian of the 
future will be in his education, and I also believe that this edu¬ 
cation should begin in the home, because it is here that those 
abiding principles that shall govern his future life are instilled. 
It is here that he should learn the love of animals. It is here 
that habits of industry, so essential in all walks of life, are in¬ 
culcated. It is here that integrity and honesty should be ac¬ 
quired, an “ honesty from principle and not from policy.” I 
sometimes feel as if the necessary association of veterinarians 
with those who traffic in horses sometimes leads them into 
practices that should not be tolerated, and so I believe that the 
successful veterinarian of the future must be one whose integ¬ 
rity is above reproach. 
After the home training I believe that the veterinarian of 
the future should have the best education that is possible in 
the common school, high school, college and university. I am 
a firm believer in the new industrial education, the laboratory 
method, that which trains not only the brain to devise but the 
hand to execute, that teaches how to do, by doing. 
I think I should place first among the educational require¬ 
ments for the future veterinarian a thorough knowledge of the 
English language, “ the mother tongue.” In order that a man 
may get the best of knowledge from another or from the liter¬ 
ature of to-day it is necessary that he understands the language. 
I believe that the Anglo-Saxon will rule the world, that the 
English language will dominate mankind. There is “ the hand 
writing upon the wall,” and it is written in English. Regard¬ 
ing Ratin I suppose I am a heretic ; it is important but not 
essential—important only because of its connection with science 
in the past, but medical progress is fast cutting loose from the 
traditional past and has set her eager face towards the glowing 
future. I believe the modern languages, French or German, 
more important because they open to us a mine of information 
in original research that the patient, plodding investigators in 
other lands are doing to-day for the advancement of science. 
