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lightness, strength, and cheapness, for ship-building pur- 

 poses, and the permanent way and rolHng stock of 

 railways. 



TENTH ORDINARY MEETING. 



Royal Institution, 8th March, 1858. 

 The Rev. H. H. HIGGINS, M.A., Sen. V.P., in the Chair. 



Attention was drawn to t]\e approacliing Solar Eclipse, 

 and the arrangements Avhich had been made for members 

 going on to the central line of eclipse, on the Saturday 

 prior to the event. 



The following paper was then read : — 



ON THE INFLUENCE OF CHRISTIANITY ON 

 THE ROMAN MATRIMONIAL LAW. 



By carl EETSLAG, Ph.D.Beelin; 

 Peofessor in Queen's College, Liveepool. 



CHAPTER I. 

 The Eastern world of antiquity, with all the wonderful 

 productions of its fancy, startles us by its strangeness. 

 We must strain our mind and force our imagination in 

 oi'der to understand its ideas, works, and actions. The 

 Greek life lies already nearer to us, its arts and literature 

 already seem to have proceeded from a spirit which is 

 more related to ours. We recognise in the public trans- 

 actions of tliat nation the sympathies and passions of our 

 own world. But even Greece, if we look deeper into 

 her private life, has still enough which is strange to us, 



