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Excerpt from Addresses Delivered Before the Canadian Club of Toronto: Season 1904-05
Mr. Chairman and Gentlemen It is with no ordinary feelings of (diffidence that I rise to thank you for the reception you have just accord ed to me, and for the kindly introduction of me which has been given from the Chair. Since I set foot on Canadian soil some eight days ago it has fallen to me not infrequently, to say the least, to have the privilege of returning thanks for the kindly welcome I have received, and my endeav or has been rather to solve' the problem of perpetual motion than to get the opprtunities I should desire of quietly and deliberately thinking over what I have seen, and thanking adequately those who have shown it all to me. And if I have been di?ident before I can honestly and quite straighforwardly say that I feel that di?idence more at this moment than on any other occasion, because I recognize to the full the importance of the gathering to whom I am now allowed to speak. It is important not so much for to-day or for to-morrow as for the years to come. The re ception which you have given me I think I rightly understand. I know, of course, I am not so stupid as to suppose that it is in any narrow sense of the word a personal thing. I know, of course, that it is not connected with any denominational considerations, and I know what you are think ing of is, as your chairman so admirably put it, to give the kindliest wel come which you can to one who is necessarily from his position a some what important citizen oi the empire, who has large responsibilities con nected with our common life, and who certainly desires, - here I can Speak at least from my heart, - to do what in him lies to make that com mon life either in the new country or in the old a worthy and an ever w'orthier thing. (applause.)
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