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but ever demands as the price of excellence. She never fails in 
her protests, nor her approvals ; observation from experiments has 
so convincingly taught every scientific worker, else your conven¬ 
tion to-day might most properly adjourn sine die , go home and be 
thankful to the “fates ” for the poor, mean, dwarfed apology for a 
colt, calf, pig or chicken, complacently content to feel that you have 
no mission behind the fact.” Instead of which conclusion of the 
dark ages, you recognize the propriety, aye, the necessity for this 
interchange of thought and experience, to bring about this most 
desirable millenium, when no dwarfed, mean, thing shall cumber 
this earth, made so fair, with the prophetic word good, or God, 
written over everything animate and inanimate. 
All this thoughtful, intelligent care for the lower creation, chal¬ 
lenges my gratitude, and—envy. Envy ! you say ; yes, perhaps 
that is the word ; not that I love a horse less, but that I love man 
more. For really, in my observations, I have thought were half 
the care, the anxiety, or real interest manifest for the nobleness, 
the grandeur of our sons and daughters, that there is for the 
horses they may ride, we should be most surely attaining the 
highest, grandest and noblest results. 
Inasmuch as we must have “sound bodies” for sound minds 
to work in and through, as well as to enjoy, my argument may 
be brief to convince you that though last, it is not the least im¬ 
portant consideration how so desirable an end may be obtained. 
I would not forget in these few hints that I am not in a medi¬ 
cal lecture room, or that in a paper of this kind, for this occasion, 
I could more than suggest by statement, rather than through ar¬ 
gument. Instances innumerable could be cited of the baleful 
influence exerted upon offspring through careless, reckless moth¬ 
ers, some, perhaps, through wantonness, but the large majority 
victims themselves of circumstances that the parents should be 
held responsible for. And when it is, as in my opinion it ought 
to be, held a crime to bring into this world of “immutable law,” 
a child incapable of manly development, then, and not till then, 
will this question find its place in every school or association for 
learning, “ what can we do to be saved ?” 
In the case of animals, we contemplate them in the light of rea- 
