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belittled,but never ignored....What common stuff haveIfoundinour people?Fundamentally a stout individualism,yet withthe power of co-operation,a broad andtolerant humanity,and humour.Not witwhich is of the intellect,but humour whichis of the heart.You may pity humanity,youmay hate it,but humour is a saving grace:humour can only exist with a love for yourkind,and even behind the laughter there areoften tears.”  \nAN INTERPRETER OF ENGLAND  \nThe Falconer Lecturesdelivered by  \nTHE RIGHT HON.THE EARL BALDWINOF BEWDLEY,K.G.  \nat the  \nUniver sity of TorontoApril I939  \nMade and Printed in Great Britainfor Hodder and Stoughton Limitedby Wyman &Sons Limited LondoFakemham and Reading  \n工  \nT was in the early August of I927 that Iast spoke in Toronto,and I began myspeech with these words:\"I am here merelyas an interpreter of England to you.\"I amhere to-day in response to an invitation fromyour great University to inaugurate a lecture-ship founded in grateful recollection of thewise and beneficent rule of Sir RobertFalconer.  \nFew Canadians are more highly respectedthan Sir Robert.He became President ofthis University in I907 and held that officefor twenty-five years.He found a University  \nS  \nAN INTERPRETER OF ENGLAND  \ndisunited and struggling with the problemof absorbing several denominational collegesinto the general academic organisation.InI932 he left a University united and sure ofitself,possessing all the great faculties whichare an integral part of any first class university,especially a famous Faculty of Medicine (thediscovery of insulin being one of its outstand-ing achievements),a vigorous body of teachersand students (both graduate and under-graduate),Hart House,which is a unique andsuccessful idea and has been widely copied,and—in a word—a University which isadmittedly one of the most significant in theEnglish-speaking world.Sir Robert,who ishappily still with us,presided over yourdestinies for twenty-five years and has madea name for himself which 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