Excerpt from Address of the Rt. Hon. B. Disraeli, M. P., As Lord Rector of the University of Glasgow: Delivered at Glasgow on Wednesday, November 19th, 1873 Fully to our consciousness, and I should not be at all surprised if the, visor of Home Rule should fall off some day, and you beheld a very different countenance. Now, gentlemen, . I think we ought to be prepared for those circumstances. The position of England is one which is indicative of dangers arising from holding a middle course upon those matters. It may be open, to England again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.