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176 progress among men of learning and talents—where reason and not fashion is the guiding star; but is often seen in all its mushroom glory where, the vain and fickle-minded give direction to public opinion, and its success is always in an inverse ratio to the sterling talents and sound sense of the community where it is found. Homœopathy is a moral epidemic, and like others of a physical nature it began in the east and took its course westward towards the setting sun; and when its last flickering rays of twilight shall sink beneath the horizon, we may safely predict for it a long and undisturbed repose.