Excerpt from Inaugural Address: Delivered Before the University College Literary and Scientific Society, October 27th, 1871 A custom, already time-honoured, has established, as. One of the duties of my office, the delivering of an. Inaugural address. At the first Public Meeting. Of the College Session. I need not deny that in obedience to. This demand I find myself beset with grave difficulties A path may be all the more easy. To tread that it. Has been trodden before; but that circumstance will render it all the more difficult always to find something new. The path I am to tread to-night has been frequently trodden before, and I fear that the way-side flowers also. 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.