The other five Bursaries I appoint to depend (for the
present and indefinitely onwards) on proficiency in classical
learning, that is to say, in knowledge of Latin, Greek, and English,
all of these, or any two of them. This also gives good promise of a
young mind, but as I do not feel certain that it gives perennially or
will perennially be thought in universities to give the best promise,
I am willing that the Senatus of the University, in case of a change
of its opinion on this point hereafter in the course of generations,
shall bestow these latter five Bursaries on what it does then consider
the most excellent proficiency in matters classical, or the best proof
of a classical mind, which directs its own highest effort towards
teaching and diffusing in the new generations that will come. The
Bursaries to be open to free competition of all who come to study in
Edinburgh University, and who have never been of any other University,
the competition to be held on or directly before or after their first
matriculation there. Bursaries to be always given on solemnly strict
and faithful trial to the worthiest, or if (what in justice can never
happen, though it illustrates my intention) the claims of two
were absolutely equal, and could not be settled by further trial,
preference is to fall in favour of the more unrecommended and
unfriended under penalties graver than I, or any highest mortal, can
pretend to impose, but which I can never doubt--as the law of eternal
justice, inexorably valid, whether noticed or unnoticed, pervades all
corners of space and of time--are very sure to be punctually exacted
if incurred.
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