Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853.

  • Carlisle, George William Frederick Howard, Earl of, 1802-1864
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1853
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Credit: Address delivered by The Right Hon. The Earl of Carlisle, at the ceremony of his installation as The Lord Rector of Marischal College and University, Aberdeen, on Wednesday, 31st March, 1853. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    reaction, tlirowii open your lettered retreats and howers of learning, to his peaceful, and, I trust, more docile, descendant. As a stranger within your walls up to the ])reseiit moment, 1 should feel it to be almost oflicious, and it would, at all events, be only to retrace ground which has been, on previous oc¬ casions, sufficiently occupied, if I should attempt to recapitulate the justly-celebrated names which, in almost every department of science and literature, have from time to time adorned, as they continue to adorn, this distinguished University. Such an eminent succession in the past, is in itself one of the surest guarantees against degeneracy in the future. I think it sufficient to remark that Aberdeen, as well as Rome, has had her line of Gregories; and I apprehend that it would admit of easy solution which of the two lines has conferred the most real and lasting benefit on mankind. Nor can 1 forget that, when the celebrated Scottish Historian and Philosopher of the last century —David Iluine—the merits of whose diction ought never to make us forget that, while there is not a great deal of honesty in his history, there is still less of truth in his philosophy— when, in the zenith of his reputation and popu¬ larity, he employed his winning pen to sap the