Inaugural Addresses By Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow to Which Are
Inaugural Addresses By Lords Rectors of the University of Glasgow to Which Are
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Which of these views is the sound one, this is not the place to decide. All that I shall say is, that I have the very same reliance on the ultimate effects of knowledge upon the happiness of man, that I have on the effects of gravita- tion, or of any of the other laws that regulate material nature. But I would not pollute this purely academical occasion, by attempting, however indirectly, to influence your opinions upon such subjects. Your object ought to be to abstain from prematurely committi...ng yourselves to the doctrines of any sect, until you have calmly enlightened your understandings. In the meantime, nobody can doubt what the practical lesson is, that ought to be drawn from the circumstances in which you are placed. Since a new scene appears to be rising — since new theatres for educated men are erecting in every quarter of the globe — and since you meet, in the poorest of your fellow-countrymen, formid- able competitors, to whom all the honours of life are as open as to you, — it is your duty to prepare yourselves for no BY HENRY COCKBURN, ESQ.
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