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Norfolk; Rev. P. R. Mackay, N. B.; Rev. Professor F. Paget, D.D., 
Oxford; Rev. G. W. Peck, M.A., LL.D., United States; Rev. C. C. 
Starbuck, United States; Rev. E. W. Syle, D.D., Surrey; Rev. E. 8S. 
Talbot, M.A., Warden of Keble College, Oxford; Rev. J. H. Vincent, D.D., 
United States ; Rev. Dr. Wherry, D.D., India; Rev. F. A. Wilbur, Ph.D., 
United States ; Rev. J. R. Winchester, M.A., Ph.D., United States. 
Also the presentation to the Library of the following :— 
Proceedings of the Royal Society. 
Royal Colonial Institute. 
Royal United Service Institution. 
Royal Geographical Society. 
Geological Society. 
Tur Presipent.—I think this Institute is to be congratulated on the 
large number of adhesions it has received during the recess. (Hear, hear.) I 
will now call upon the Rev. H. J. Clarke to read his paper. 
EVOLUTION A REVELATION; or, tur UNIVERSE UNFOLD. 
ING IN THE PROCESS OF TIME AN ETERNAL PURPOSE AND AN 
ILLIMITABLE PLAN. By the Rey. H. J. Cuarxz.* 
HE title I have given to my paper, as will be perceived, 
lays me under an obligation to justify two debatable 
assumptions. I must endeavour, on the one hand, to show 
that a philosophical view of the origin and progress of 
differentiation necessitates the recognition of a law or principle 
which may with propriety be termed Evolution; and, on the 
other, to render it apparent that the process thus indicated, 
instead of leaving in impenetrable darkness the character 
and preperties of the mysterious Hnergy which it presupposes, 
constitutes in some measure, if duly apprehended, their 
Revelation. 
2. Now, before attempting to establish these propositions 
and before entering into particulars relative to differentiation in 
organic structures, it may be advisable to invite attention to 
the full scientific import of the term in question. When one 
type is assumed to stand to another in the relation of lineaily- 
direct conditioning antecedent, the latter is conceived as 
having been evolved from the former, and the evolution as 
having been effected by some specific determination of a 
persistent force, the reproduction of prior characteristics 
being ascribed to sameness, and deviations from them to 
% Vicar of Great Barr, author of The Fundamental Setence. 
