PREFACE. 
HE Twenty-Fifth Volume of the Journal of the Transac- 
| tions of the VICTORIA INSTITUTE now issued, is a record 
of the various important questions taken up in papers by 
competent authors, carefully investigated, and impartially 
discussed at the Meetings by those who have studied the 
subjects considered. The papers contained in this volume are 
upon the following subjects :—* On the Monism, Pantheism, 
and Dualism of Brahmanical and Zoroastrian Philosophers,” 
by Sir M. Monter Witiiams, K.C.LE., D.C.L. “On Human 
Responsibility,” by the Right Honourable Lord GrimTHorPr. 
“ On Chinese Chronology,” by the Rev. JAMEs Lxaceas, M.A., 
Professor of Chinese in the University of Oxford; in the 
discussion of which Sir THomAs F. Wanbks, G.C.M.G., and 
others took part. On the site of “The Garden of Eden,” by 
Mr. Hormuzp RaAssAm, who combats certain statements 
