Excerpt from Two Lectures on South Africa: Delivered Before the Philosophical Institute Edinburgh, Jan; 6& 9, 1880

Ladies and Gentlemen, - An invitation to lecture before the Philosophical Institution at Edinburgh is a high compliment, but also an embarrassing one. You have been addressed, and will be addressed during this session, by many able speakers on weighty matters, scientific or literary. It has been difficult for me to select a subject on which I have anything to say which can deserve a place in so distinguished a series. I turned over in my mind various periods of Scotch history, hoping to find something which might answer the purpose. I thought at one time I would make a lecture out of the Scotch Statute-book. There is pleasant reading in that book, only it is a little dry. Old statutes are like the ivory carvings which are found in Egyptian and Assyrian tombs.

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