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ORDINARY MEETING.* 
Tae Presipent, Sir Georce G. Stokes, Bart., M.P., P.R.S., 
IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author:— 
THE MEANING AND HISTORY OF THE LOGOS OF 
PHILOSOPHY. By the Rev. H. J. Ciarxe.t 
FFORTS, made in times remote, to discover some funda- 
mental principle which should account for all things 
but itself, thus unifying the sum total of facts and phenomena 
and harmonising their inter-relations, originated an intellectual 
pursuit which, if defined with reference to its purely scientific 
aim, and apart from ethical considerations, may be called 
LAtiology, but which the ancient Greeks significantly named 
Philosophy ; that is to say, the study of Wisdom undertaken 
lovingly, and therefore with the intention of following it up 
as far as the utmost attainable limit. Not, however, at the 
fundamental principle did the votary of Wisdom propose to 
himself to rest from his labours: the ultimate truth, if he 
believed he had reached it, established itself in his intellect as 
a germinating principle, a prolific seed of thought, pregnant, 
as it seemed to him, with innumerable interpretations of 
* March 4, 1889. 
+ Vicar of Great Barr, author of The Fundamental Science. 
