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THE Address just given by the Lord Rector of Aberdeen University, and published in extenso in the March number of the Contemporary Review, is second in importance to none of the similar utterances which have been heard of late years. It bears in every line the stamp of a master mind. The many topics touched on, the apparent diversity of which has alarmed the shallow critic of the Times, are all grouped round one central idea—the advancement of Science; and there is not only a splendid unity throughout the Address, and no “uncertain sound,” which, coming as it does from a Royal Commissioner charged with a special survey of our scientific needs, as well as a Lord Rector, may well fill us with confidence for his advocacy, even if one despairs of much improvement being effected in the lifetime of the present generation. It is indeed to be feared, as Mr. Huxley himself anticipates, that on many points he will be “The Rector who was always beaten;” if so, it is none the less certain that his defeats will become “victories in the hands of his successors.”
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Professor Huxley at Aberdeen . Nature 9, 337–339 (1874). https://doi.org/10.1038/009337a0
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