The Days of a Man 



1913 



Nice 

 points of 

 language 



Graham 

 Kerr 



spoke eloquently and at some length, with the courage 

 of conviction, not only as concerned immortality but 

 also as to his confident belief in direct communication 

 with those who have passed from this life. Seven years 

 later I was privileged to preside at a lecture given by 

 him in San Francisco, on which occasion he went into 

 detail as regards his matured opinions about spirit 

 communication. But this brilliant, finely delivered 

 address, I am constrained to say, made upon me, as a 

 scientific student, a painful impression. 



At Glasgow I gave two addresses in the University, 

 and also spoke before a church congregation and 

 special societies. Here, after the first talk, I was 

 warned not to say "English" when I meant "British," 

 as the Scotch are sensitive on that point. But in 

 lecturing to a Catholic organization of young men, I 

 casually used "British" to include the Irish. I was 

 now advised that Great Britain and Ireland were not 

 one and indivisible, and that neither "English" nor 

 "British" was a term wide enough to include "John 

 Bull's Other Island." 



At Glasgow we were guests of my distinguished 

 colleague, Dr. J. Graham Kerr, professor of Zoology 

 and author of valuable studies in Vertebrate Mor- 

 phology. 



In the Glasgow Union I spoke against war address- 

 ing a body of students who seemed in the aggregate 

 to think it rather a noble sport; and though very 

 friendly as a whole they introduced me to the Scotch 

 university habit of expressing disapproval by drag- 

 ging the feet across the floor. When the feeling is at 

 all unanimous, this becomes somewhat impressive! 



Dr. Kerr having asked me to talk to his students 

 on the fishes of the South Seas, I interwove in my 



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