INDEPENDENCE BOOKS BY RUDYARD KIPLING ACTIONS AND REACTIONS BRUSHWOOD BOY, THE CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS COLLECTED VERSE DAY’S WORK, THE DEPARTMENTAL DITTIES AND BALLADS AND BARRACK-ROOM BALLADS DIVERSITY OF CREATURES, A EYES OF ASIA, THE FEET OF THE YOUNG MEN, THE FIVE NATIONS, THE FRANCE AT WAR FRINGES OF THE FLEET FROM SEA TO SEA HISTORY OF ENGLAND, A IRISH GUARDS IN THE GREAT WAR, THE JUNGLE BOOK, THE JUNGLE BOOK, SECOND JUST SO SONG BOOK JUST SO STORIES KIM KIPLING ANTHOLOGY, A PROSE AND VERSE KIPLING CALENDAR KIPLING STORIES AND POEMS EVERY CHILD SHOULD KNOW KIPLING BIRTHDAY BOOK, THE LAND AND SEA TALES LETTERS OF TRAVEL LIFE’S HANDICAP: BEING STORIES OF MINE OWN PEOPLE LIGHT THAT FAILED, THE MANY INVENTIONS NAULAHKA, THE (With Wolcott Balestier) PLAIN TALES FROM THE HILLS PUCK OF POOK’S HILL REWARDS AND FAIRIES RUDYARD KIPLING’S VERSE: Inclusive Edition, 1885-1918 SEA WARFARE SEVEN SEAS, THE SOLDIER STORIES SOLDIERS THREE, THE STORY OF THE GADSBYS, AND IN BLACK AND WHITE SONG OF THE ENGLISH, A SONGS FROM BOOKS STALKY & CO. THEY TRAFFICS AND DISCOVERIES UNDER THE DEODARS, THE PHANTOM ’RICKSHAW, AND WEE WILLIE WINKIE WITH THE NIGHT MAIL YEARS BETWEEN, THE INDEPENDENCE RECTORIAL ADDRESS DELIVERED AT ST. ANDREWS OCTOBER 10, 1923 BY RUDYARD KIPLING [Illustration: Logo] GARDEN CITY NEW YORK DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY 1924 [Illustration: Rudyard Kipling signature] COPYRIGHT, 1923, BY RUDYARD KIPLING ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE COUNTRY LIFE PRESS, GARDEN CITY. N. Y. INDEPENDENCE The sole revenge that Maturity can take upon Youth for the sin of being young, is to preach at it. When I was young I sat and suffered under that dispensation. Now that I am older I purpose, if you, my constituents, will permit me, to hand on the Sacred Torch of Boredom. In the First Volume, then, of the Pickering Edition of the works of the late Robert Burns, on the 171st page, you will find this stanza: To catch Dame Fortune’s golden smile, Assiduous wait upon her, And gather gear by every wile That’s justified by honour-- Not for to hide it in a hedge, Nor for a train attendant, But for the glorious privilege Of being independent.