I shall here claim, as I always have done on these occasions, the right of addressing myself to the younger members of the audience, - and for this purpose, therefore, unfitted as it may seem for an elderly infirm man to do so, I will return to second childhood and become, as it were, young again amongst the young.
In: William Crookes, A Course of Six Lectures on the Various Forces of Matter and Their, Relations to Each Other, Lecture 1 (p. 2)