Dr Livingstone' Cambridge Lectures Author:David Livingstone Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: PREFATOEY LETTER THE EEV. ADAM SEDGWICK, M.A., F.E.S. WOODWABDIAN PROFESSOR OP GEOLOGY AND VICE-MASTER OF TRINITY COLLEGE, CAMERIDGE. Trinity College, ... more »Cambridge, March 16, 1858. My Dear Sir, A Few days after Dr Livingstone's visit to Cambridge, you informed me that you were about to publish the Reports of the two Addresses he had made (in the Senate- House and Town-Hall), with some notes and explanatory matter of your own. At the same time you asked me to write an account of what took place in our Senate- House, on the occasion of his Address to the University, with any comments I might think fit to offer for the use of your little Volume. I promised to comply with your request; for you told me that by so doing I should gratify my honoured friend Dr Livingstone: but my prefatory letter, I added, must be short; as I disclaimed all purpose of writing a formal review of Dr Livingstone's labours. I should indeed have thought such a task delightful, had I possessed health and leisure for its performance; but I had neither the one nor the other. Three months have passed away since you first spoke to me of your intended publication. The delay cannot be a cause of regret to you if it has enabled you to improve the matter of your work. For your subject is not one of a momentary and local interest; but is connected with the advance of physical knowledge; and, under God's blessing, with the progress of humanity and Christian truth. You now tell me that, with the exception of a few pages, your work is all in type; and you again claim my promise. I ought to be ashamed of my long delay were I not able to reply, that, after the duties of the Michaelmas term were ended, my health for many weeks was in a state which madethe simple task of writing such a letter as this almost ...« less