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and mineral phenomena require our conviction of distinct causes or 

 essential powers on which they depend. If the powers are distinct, 

 then they may be separated, and our minds capable of immortality. 

 That our minds are morally and intellectually constituted, has a final 

 cause, or there is some sufficient reason for it, or end in view ; that end 

 is not attained in this mortal life, but requires a life to come. The 

 certainty attending on this anticipation of immortality, being subjective, 

 must rise in degree, as the mind and conscience are expanded and 

 purified, where moral sentiments and pious affections are vigorous and 

 joyful ; the law of final cause establishes a glowing anticipation of 

 immortality. 



ELEVENTH MEETING. 



BoTAL Institution. — 22nd March, 1852. 



J. B. YATES, Esq., F.S.A., &c., President, in the chair. 



The Secretary read a copy of a Letter, addressed by the President to 

 the Mayor of Liverpool, on the subject of inviting the British Associa- 

 tion for the Advancement of Science, to hold its meeting in Liverpool 

 in the year 1853. 



The Secretary read a Letter from T. F. Marsh, Esq., Town-clerk of 

 Warrington, Honoraiy Secretary to the Warrington Museum and 

 Library, inviting the members of the Society to visit that town and 

 neighbourhood, in company \vith other Societies, upon Friday, the 7th 

 May. 



The thanks of the Society were unanimously voted. 



The Secretary having introduced the subject of a contemplated Soiree, 

 under the united auspices of the Literary and Philosophical Society, 

 Polytechnic Society, Architectural and Archaeological Society, Historic 

 Society of Lancashire and Cheshire, and the Chemists' Association : — 



