Not by any virtue in the iron itself
If the shoe is adopted as a cure for the unsoundness already manifested in animals that have been deprived of the proper use of their feet, it will cure them, not by any virtue in the iron itself, nor by any magic in its application, but simply by giving beneficent nature an opportunity to repair the ruin that the ignorance of man has wrought upon her perfect handiwork.
This part of our subject is so important that we shall return to it again in subsequent chapters, and enforce it at every point.
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