Mr. Baldwin did not fail to apply his doctrine prae-
tically. He invited all who had the privilege of a University education to take their part in public affairs. Some of them would go forth as humanists to whom the latest sensation was already stale ; others as mathe- maticians who would always be convinced that 2 and 2 made 4; others as physicists to whom a working hypothesis was nothing more than a working hypothesis ; others as philosophers who, trying all things, would reach the distinction between right and wrong. The minds of all of them turned on the poles of truth. Mr. Baldwin's address, as his quotations prove, was the fruit of much wider 'reading than he is 'commonly credited with. It was at once philosophic and businesslike and it will bear reading together- With the beSt Rectorial-Addresses that have been delivered at Edinburgh. No one could read Mr. Baldwin's Address Without feeling of its author, "This is a man I can trust." - - * * * *.
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