Excerpt from Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of Aberdeen on His Installation as Rector: March 22, 1867 For instance, that there should not be in Oxford teachers of the leading languages of the Slavonic family, and a Professor specially devoted to Slavonic literature, is an absurdity and a disgrace but no one would expect or desire to see such teachers and such a Professor here. The questions then arise, What are the great branches of the higher education which should be cultivated in such a University as this? Are there any gaps which it would be important to have filled up? First, then, I shall take the Faculty of Arts, represented here by the Professors of Greek, of Latin, of English, and Logic, - of Mathematics, Moral Philo sophy, Natural Philosophy, and Natural History. The fact that this University should have married, as it were, the study of physical science and of the ancient tongues, long before most of the other great educational establishments of the empire ever dreamt of their union, is extremely creditable, and the good service which it did, in this respect, surely deserves to be oftener acknowledged. 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.