ABSTRACT
I am greatly honoured to have been asked to give the 1978 Academy Lecture, not least because, I understand, I was rushed into the First Team when the person originally selected declined to play. Casual empiricism leads me to suggest that the Academy Lecture, like the Marshall Lectures in Economics at Cambridge, can be the end of a person’s reputation. If that should be so this evening, I ask my fellow Fellows to save their assessments (for my ears anyway) until we are between the fish and the main course. Hunger makes me aggressive so that, if they were to do otherwise, I might hit first and start talking after.
