ORDINARY MEETING.* 

 D. Howard, Esq., D.L., F.C.S., in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the 

 following Elections were announced : — 



Associates : — Eev. Prea. O. McCutcheon, D.D., Ireland ; F. E. Cowper 

 Eeed, Esq., B.A., F.G.S., Cambridgeshire ; J. James Eidge, Esq., M.D., 

 B.S., B.A., B.Sc, Middlesex ; Eev. W. Sealy, M.A., Devonshire ; Eev. J. 

 Tuckwell, Middlesex ; VV. Watson Taylor, Esq., Middlesex. 



Hon. Cor. Member :— Eev. C. V. A. Van Dyck, D.D., Pres. Syrian 

 Coll., Beirut. 



The following paper was read by the author : — 



ITEMS OF CHINESE ETHICS AAW PHILOSOPHY. 



By Sm-geon-Geiieval C. A. Gordon, M.D., C.B., Q.H.P., etc. 



Syllabus. — Preliminary — Moral Philosophy and Ethics — The Sacred 

 Edict — Ancestral Worship— Benevolent Institutions — Laws and 

 Enactments — Punishments— Education — -The Liberal Professions— 

 On Witty Compositions — A Charitable Physician. — Chinese Proverbs 

 — Eespect for Labour — China in the Present — China in the Futui'e. 



Preliminary. 



WITH reference to, and partly in continuation of, papers 

 I have had the honour on previous occasions to 

 submit to the Victoria Institute! I express a hope that 

 the remarks I ani about to offer may not be deemed 

 altogether inappropriate. The object with which tliey 

 have been collated and formulated is to exhibit some 

 from among the numerous maxims relating to ethics and 

 philosophy in accordance with which, Chinese civilisation has 



* 10th of 29th Session, 7 May, 1894. 



t Notes on the " Ethnology and Ancient Chronology of the Chine.rse." 

 V.I. Trans, vol. xxiii. "Philosophy, &c., in Ancient India." V.I. 

 Tians. voL xxv. 



