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VICTORIALIBRARY\n\nTHE  \n# FALCONERLECTURES\n\nDELIVERED BY  \nTHE RIGHT HON.  \nTHE EARL BALDWIN  \nOF BEWDLEY,K.G.  \nhttps://archive.org/details/falconerlectures0000unse  \n\n| This lectureship was established in the University  \u003Cbr>of Toronto by friends of Sir Robert Falconer to  \u003Cbr>commemorate the twenty-five years of his  \u003Cbr>Presidency,1907-1932.   |\n| --- |\n\nTHE RIGHT HON.THE EARL BALDWINOF BEWDLEY,K.G.  \n\n| THE  \u003Cbr>ALCONER LECTURES  \u003Cbr>DELIVERED BY  \u003Cbr>THE RIGHT HON.THE EARL BALDWIN  \u003Cbr>OF BEWDLEY,K.G.  \u003Cbr>AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO  \u003Cbr>APRIL TWENTY,TWENTY-ONE,AND TWENTY-TWO  \u003Cbr>1939  \u003Cbr>THE UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO PRESS   |\n| --- |\n\nUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA  \nLIBRARY  \nCoPYRIGHT,CANADA,1939  \nFIRST LECTURE  \nIT was in the early August of 1927 that I last spoke in TorontoIand I began my speech with these words:\"I am here merelyas an interpreter of England to you.\"I am here to-day in responseto an invitation from your great University to inaugurate a lecture-ship founded in grateful recollection of the wise and beneficentrule of Sir Robert Falconer.  \nFew Canadians are more highly respected than Sir RobertHe became President of this University in 1907 and held thatoffice for twenty-five years.He found a University disunited andstruggling with the problem of absorbing several denominationalcolleges into the general academic organization.In 1932 he lefta University united and sure of itself,possessing all the greatfaculties which are an integral part of any first-class university,especially a famous Faculty of Medicine(the discovery of insulinbeing one of its outstanding achievements),a vigorous body ofteachers and students(both undergraduate and graduate),HartHouse which is a unique and successful idea and has been widelycopied,and—in a word—a University which is admittedly one ofthe most significant in the English-speaking world.Sir Robert,who is happily still with us,presided over your destinies for twenty-five years and has made a name for himself which will long betreasured by men while truth and wisdom are reverenced.  \nYou have indeed done me a great honour.I am no scholar,nor yet a man of letters,yet it may be that the time is propitiousfor an expansion of that phrase “an interpreter of England”andin the spirit of an interpreter I will proceed to my task.I wouldspeak to you of my country and what she stands for to-day:ofmy people and what they brought to this continent,and somethingof that wider world of which we are a part.And I speak,not asone who has read of these things in books or studied them inmanuals,but as one who has tried to play his part in the evolutionof British democracy in those searching years which followed theGreat War.Such views as I may express are my own,the resultof experience,and probably shared by large numbers of my fellow-countrymen.  \n# THE FALCONER LECTURES\n\nBut no one is committed by them nor have I the right to speakfor any.My only object is to suggest lines of thought which maylead to a better understanding not only between us but betweenall the English-speaking peoples,and to contribute to world peacerather than to world friction.  \nHad it been possible I should have desired more time in whichto prepare lectures of the quality you have a right to expect.But my desire to visit you at this time was so strong that I resolvedto do the best I could in what was a race against time when Ihad many preoccupations and my difficulties were increased bythe kaleidoscopic changes in the international situation.Somepassages lost their meaning before the ink was dry and had to bere-written even in the last week.But the original intention stands,and,if any words that I may speak can make you think for your-selves on these great problems or help you in any way to face them,that will indeed be my ample reward.  \nTo-day I want to speak of those strangely different componentparts which made that new nation 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