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Ninth Meeting — February 18, 1850. 

 J. B. YATES, Esq., in the Chair. 



The President presented, in the name of the author, a 

 pamphlet On the me of Bronze Celts in Military Operations, 

 by James Yates, Esq. 



Mr. Yates made some remarks upon the Carthagenian 

 antiquities which had been that day sold in town. He con- 

 sidered them as remains of Christian Carthage, and not of the 

 city destroyed by the Romans. Many of the fictile vessels 

 bore sacred emblems. 



Mr. Earam then read a paper entitled A Disquisition on 

 the Nature and Essence of Body : 



He differed from the materialists and those who would limit 

 the power of mind by its experience of matter, and pleaded for 

 a wider range of knowledge as proper for the understanding. 



He then divided his subject into different propositions, 

 which he supported at considerable length. 



They were in substance as follows : — 



1st. — ^That all material objects have been created. 



2nd. — ^That the creative power must still be inherent in all 

 bodies; — and that that power shows most prominently, — 

 will and understanding. 



3rd. — That the ordinary phrase of the world being created 

 out of nothing, was incorrect. He considered it to be a 

 production of the creative mind,^-out of the divine power 

 or essence. 



4th. — That as the world has been produced out of the divine 

 power, its pure essence is existing power : and that " body*' 

 viewed in its last analysis, must be an assemblage of pure 

 powers. 



