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Poe CaNADIAN JOURNAL. 
NEW SERIES. 
No MM MD ANA ROR, S60. 
THE PRESIDENT’S ADDRESS. 
BY DANIEL WILSON, LL.D., 
PROFESSOR OF HISTORY AND ENGLISH LITERATURE, UNIVERSITY COLLEGE, TORONTO. 
Read before the Canadian Institute, January 7th, 1860. 
GENTLEMEN OF THE CANADIAN INSTITUTE, 
Once more we assemble here to renew the work of another Session, 
as a body specially invitmg its members to devote their energies to 
the investigation of the laws of nature, the advancement of science, 
and the discovery of new truths. The position in which you have 
placed me as your President was altogether unexpected by me, and I 
had anticipated a very different choice ; but it would be as ungracious 
as unseemly for me now to cavil at a deviation from precedents indi- 
cated in the distinguished series of occupants of this chair, when I owe 
to it so honorable a distinction, conferred on me in so cordial and grati- 
fying a manner. 
The functions of this Institute are of a peculiarly important kind, 
and claim for it a generous encouragement from all who desire the 
true welfare and advancement of this Province. Of its future pro- 
gress I entertain no doubt; for it is impossible that Canada can 
- attain to true greatness apart from such elements of mental and moral 
vigor as it is the special object of the Canadian Institute to develop. 
And when that greatness has been achieved, and this young Institute 
has advanced with it to maturity, I doubt not that among the earnest 
Vou. VY. K 
