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PLANTED ON ALL THE OCEANS."
"I think we can venture to say that if
the English-speaking peoples, who are
placed upon all the oceans, and whose
flag is upon all the seas, and who held
so large a part of civilised mankind with-
in then EovernnienK-it those English
speaking peoples hold together, and live
with friendliness and goodwill, and mor-
ish the sentiment for the maintenance of
the peace of the earth, The peace of the
earth will be preserved (Applause)
It has been" our mission to be the
great discoveries, to be the great care
using influence which has flown north
and those small islands between the
North Sea and the Atlantic to the ends
of the earth, and over all the oceans,
and our power as members of the Bn
lish stock and British Empire is incomparably
increased when we live on terms
of friendship with the great Republic of
the United States, for we feel that, although
under different Governments, we
are one in heart and mind and affection
(Applause) His Excellency the Governor
has referred in language which profoundly
touched me to the fact that I
have had the honour of belonging and
acting as a professor for a long time
in the University of Oxford, of which
he was himself a very distinguished graduate,
and it is on that account doubly
agreeable to me to be received here by
the ancient University ancient relatively
in Austi alia-which has done so much
for the promotion of learning in the Australian
Continent, and particularly in the
State to which you belong. Measured by
years indeed, it is modern compared with
the University of Oxford The Oxford
University knows no beginning It existed
without any charter of Pope or
King, and without any Statute of Parliament
It existed before the time of
legal memory Before the land was,
as we know it, there existed the Uni-'
city of Oxford, and that is an antiquity
of which we are proud But you
have a future You will one day look
back to your early days as we do, and
you are relatively ancient to Australia
and to your own State, because there
had been an England long before there
was a University of Oxford, but scarcely
had New South Wales begun to be
an organised colony than the wise men
of those days felt that the University was
a necessary ornament of the State, and
planted among you the University of Sydney.
(Applause.)
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