LETTER FROM PROFESSOR FERRIER.
TO THE RIGHT HONOURABLE THE
LORD PROVOST, THE MAGISTRATES & TOWN COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH;
My Lord and Gentlemen,
The evidence is now in your hands on which the several Candidates for the Chair of Logic and Metaphysics rest their claims: the day of election is drawing near. In these circumstances, I feel assured that, while all of you are ready to permit, some of you are disposed to invite us to lay before you—with the view of facilitating your adjudication—a condensed statement, exhibiting what each of us conceives to be the strong points of his case. Presuming, then, on your indulgence, whether in the form of permission or of invitation, I shall take the liberty of addressing to you a few words, in which I shall endeavour to point out, as impartially as I can, the grounds on which I venture to solicit your suffrages.
As the evidence before you is presented, for the most part, in the form of Testimonials, it is of these principally that I have to speak. Some of the adherents of one of my worthy rivals have
