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ANTHROPOLOGICAL 01TH 
OF WASH | 
ORDINARY MEETING.* 
Tar Prestpent, Str Gzeorce G. Sroxrs, Bart., M.P., P.R.S., 
IN THE CHArR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following Paper was then read by Mr. W. Johnson, in the Author’s 
unavoidable absence in Ireland. 
THE FACTORS OF EVOLUTION IN LANGUAGE. 
- By Josera Jonn Morpuy, Esq. 
VERY able friend of mine, now departed, on being 
told of the title of my book Habit and Intelligence, 
said, ‘Ought it not to be ‘Intelligence and Habit’? 
Intelligence is the originating, and habit the perpetuating 
agency.” From a truly philosophical point of view, my 
friend was right. 
“ But we upon a wintry clime 
Have fallen—on this iron time 
Of doubts, debates, distractions, fears.” 
Although the knowledge of the laws and forces of nature 
which is embodied in our physical, chemical, and biological 
science; and the knowledge of the processes of evolution, 
which is contained in our geological science and our theory 
of vital development; are true gifts of God, yet for the 
present generation, to whom they are comparatively new, 
they appear to have the effect of obscuring the highest 
intellectual as well as spiritual truth. In the science of 
organic life, an attempt is made to explain the evidence of 
* February 4, 1889. 
VOL. XXIII, ] 
