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BANGOR.

AN ADDRESS

ON

"The Higher Learning in its bearing upon National Life in Wales."

DELIVERED BY

HENRY JONES, Esq., M.A.,

Professor of Moral Philosophy in the University of Glasgow,

AT THE

Closing Ceremony of the Session 1894-95

JUNE 28th, 1895.

Bangor:
JARVIS & FOSTER, PRINTERS, LORNE HOUSE

THE HIGHER LEARNING IN ITS BEARING

ON NATIONAL LIFE IN WALES.

If I should speak, and with all sincerity, of the honour conferred upon me by the Senatus of this College, in asking me to address you to-day, I should say less than the occasion warrants and something different from what it means. For what I find in their invitation, and value most of all, is fresh evidence of a friendship which is growing old without losing its graceful inventiveness, but is always discovering some unexpected way of expressing itself. To such an invitation obedience was inevitable. I have been constrained not by any message pressing for utterance, but by that more gentle power which brings back a wanderer to the old hearth. I am very glad to stand once more amongst my colleagues and to address my old friends and countrymen, blood-relations of my body and my spirit. And perhaps I may use the freedom of the hearth to the extent of saying this much of myself that I shall ever account it a happy circumstance in a life unusually fortunate that I should have spent the first years of my Professorial career amongst the Professors of this College.

There are, amongst the young men labouring for the public good in Wales, and gradually proving their right to positions of public trust, many old students of this College who would find it no easy task to express all that they owe to it. Here intellectual tastes were formed, and principles were adopted which will affect them all through life, and here, above all, they saw exemplified in their teachers that high devotion to truth which shall send them on prospering. But in some ways I owe to my old colleagues more than their students; for I had a better opportunity of witnessing the working of the College on the inner side,

It was not remarkable that in laying the foundation of a National Institution broad questions of educational policy should come up for discussion. Its first professors could scarcely fail to

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