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LIVINGSTONE FESTIVAL. 
[Feb. 13, 1858. 
Every man to whom it has been given to add to human know- 
ledge looks back with grateful feelings to the school or college 
where he acquired his elements of the sciences. With the same 
feeling that Livingstone may recall the old lecture-halls at Glasgow, 
so do I those of Edinburgh. We may both rejoice that the natural 
sciences have always had so large a share of the teachings in those 
Universities. At the same time we cannot forget that we have both 
been honoured by a degree from the oldest and most classical Uni- 
versity of England. 
It is, therefore, with every sentiment of gratitude and respect that 
I propose the toast which has been allotted to me, — “ The Univer- 
sities and Scientific Bodies which have united with the Geographers 
to honour Livingstone.” ( Loud cheers.') 
The Bishop of St. David’s said, that nothing but a sense of duty, 
the duty of submission to the authority of the Chair, could have 
reconciled him to the seeming presumption of his standing up in 
that place as a representative of the Universities, and especially in 
acknowledgment of a toast proposed by one who ranked among the 
foremost of the princes of modern science. He was conscious that 
he had no claim to such a character but the obligations under which 
he lay, in common with multitudes, to one of those learned bodies. 
He believed, however, he might say of them, that they were doing 
their duty, and that there never was a time when they had been 
more alive to the importance of the functions with which they were 
entrusted, and more earnestly bent on discharging them faithfully. 
He would add, that they would have missed one of their highest 
ends if they failed to inspire those who received their training with 
an intelligent interest in the expedition which was about to leave 
our shores. ( Cheers .) 
From that expedition, notwithstanding the cautionary hints 
which had been so prudently thrown out, he augured the happiest 
results — commercial, scientific, and social. But still, however 
precious and brilliant those results might be, he was sure that they 
could not outweigh the worth, or outshine the lustre, of Dr. Living- 
stone’s past achievement, by which he had shown the ascendancy 
which might be gained over uncivilized tribes by a superior in- 
telligence, animated and guided by the principles of Christian 
charity. ( Cheers.) 
If anything could heighten their admiration of that great 
moral triumph, it might be a comparison with an expedition 
which had been sent out, not many years before, in another part 
of the same continent. The expedition to which he alluded was 
