Two short extracts may be given from the "orations."
The two men who made democracy in reality, said Professor Grierson of Edinburgh University, were Burns and Napoleon, because they convinced Europe that genius and talent were independent of rank and station, and converted men to the faith of "la carriere ouverte aux talents."
Burns was the only creat peasant neet, said Mr. J. G. Jameson,.p., the only great workingman poet. In no other country of the world had this spectacle appeared of a man of culture at the plough tail, a scholar in the kailyard, and a great artist with a spade in his hand.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.