Excerpt from Inaugural Address: Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st, 1867 IN complying with the custom which prescribes that the person whom you have called by your suffrages to the honorary presidency of your Uni versity should embody in an Address a few thoughts. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.