Excerpt from The Opening Address of Session 1878-9: Delivered on Monday Evening, October 28th
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The Address of the President of a Literary and Scientific Society is an undertaking which is alarming to one who faces it for the first time. Nothing but the sudden and decisive manner in which your energetic Secretary put the question to me would have induced me to approach the task with such meagre preparation as the circumstances permitted. On landing from ten weeks vacation idleness on the ocean and in tropical climes, I am summoned to accept the office of President by return of post, and to be ready with an Address at the end of a week. To refuse on the ground that I would fain shirk voluntary work, would be to fail to make an effort when the utmost effort is due. If after so many years of absence I can find such a welcome from my Yorkshire friends, I must do my best to deserve it.
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