ORDINARY MEETING.* 
Siz J. Rispon Bennett, M.D., F.R.S., IN THE CHAIR. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following Paper was then read by the Author :— 
ON HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY. By the Right Hon. 
Lord GRIMTHORPE. 
AM asked once more to write a paper for your Transac- 
tions, and this subject was suggested to me, for the 
second time, as one that had not yet been discussed here. 
But, smce this paper was mostly in type, a friend has sent 
me one of your early volumes (LV), in which it was dis- 
cussed at great length as long ago as 1869, which may 
account for its being forgotten. This is a sad_ practical 
commentary on one of thie Tanidators estimates of Dr. Irons’s 
papers at the time, that they would rank with Butler’s 
Analogy. He wrote an “ Analysis of Human Responsibility,” 
in three successive and most elaborate papers, which, with 
the discussions on them, fill a large part of that volume. 
If this paper of mine is too short, [ must say I think Dr. 
Irons’s “ wood can hardly be seen for the trees.” Or, in less 
figurative language, his papers were so complicated, as well 
as analytic, and his reasoning so abstract, that if this were 
(what it is not) an abstract of them in the legal sense, there 
would still be an excuse for writing it; though I do not 
think I should have done so if I had known that I had been 
* Jan. 5, 1891. 
