The Days of a Man 1913 



Mez having now been called back to London for a 

 few days, on Dr. Kerr's advice I took with me for 

 the rest of my tour in Scotland a fine manly student, 

 John Alan Black. At Edinburgh, my next stand, I ad- 

 dressed a large but rather tame mass meeting, said to 

 have been badly arranged, and an extremely interest- 

 ing special gathering of the university faculty and 

 A noted their wives in Sarolea's home. Our host, an active and 

 bookman versat ii e scholar, is editor of Everyman, a weekly 

 literary journal. 1 Possessor of an immense library, 

 he occupies two large houses absolutely infested with 

 books. 



In the earnest discussion which followed my 

 drawing-room talk I found some of my academic 

 hearers prepossessed with the idea that any struggle 

 in which Britain might engage would be necessarily 

 righteous, and moreover invigorating as a national 

 experience. Yet Dr. Patterson, dean of the theo- 

 logical school, who had politely but earnestly argued 

 in defense of war as a means of physical and moral 

 cleansing and strengthening, candidly admitted that 

 much could be said on my side. Among other inter- 

 ested auditors were the rector, Sir Richard Lodge, 

 brother of Sir Oliver, and James Young Simpson, the 

 accomplished successor to Henry Drummond. 

 Donaldson At St. Andrews University, after my address, I had 

 Andrews * P^ easant interview with Dr. Donaldson, the aged 

 president, whom I found in full sympathy with my 

 message; and as a relief from lecturing, we also spent 

 a couple of hours at low tide on the bleak, rocky 

 coast, gathering shells for Eric. 



During my engagement in Dundee we were the 

 guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert A. Fergusson in their 



1 See Chapter XLIV, page 514. 



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