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New Zealand have a great deal to do. The distances that have to be 
travelled are very considerable ; our occupations are varied and arduous ; 
and it often happens that we have not the time to go deeply into these 
questions. We are unable to examine, as we should wish to do, the books 
written by men like Herbert Spencer and John Stuart Mill; but at the 
same time we know that these books are read and devoured by many 
in the Colony ; and, unless we clergy can get some inkling of the views put 
forward by the followers of these writers, and can obtain some means of 
answering them, we are left completely out of the tide and lose our influence 
over the masses. However, by studying the papers written by such men 
as Bishop Cotterill, Professor Stokes, and others, and disseminating their 
views, we have the opportunity of doing some good. (Applause.)* 
The resolution was put and carried. 
Rev. Ropryson Toornton, D.D.—Ladies and Gentlemen,—In addressing 
you at the present moment, I must omit the name of our noble President, 
for this reason, that I am about to ask you to do what I am quite sure you 
have already determined to do, namely, to thank him most heartily for his 
kindness in coming among us and taking the chair this evening. (Applause.) 
His kindness to this Institute, and the support he has given it, is sufficiently 
a matter of history ; and we are enabled to draw from it a valid induction. We 
have heard agood deal to-night about ‘ valid induction,” and I must say that 
the enumeratio simplex of what Lord Shaftesbury has done warrants our 
drawing an unanswerable conclusion with regard to his constant and untiring 
goodness and benevolence in any useful work. (Applause.) Therefore, by 
virtue of this induction, which I am sure even Professor Dabney would 
agree is an adequate one, I ask this meeting to give its cordial thanks to 
Lord Shaftesbury, together with its congratulations on seeing him occupying 
his chair as President of this Institute. (Applause.) 
Dr. Gwyn Jerrrys, F'.R.S.—I must ask the permission of the meeting to 
say a few words on this occasion, because, unfortunately, Iam not a member 
of the Victoria Institute. I cordially second the vote of thanks to its 
noble President, whois so celebrated for his exertions in the cause of 
philanthropy throughout the world, and who has certainly earned our praises 
for his urbanity and courtesy in the chair. (Applause.) 
The resolution having been carried by acclamation, 
The Earl of Saarrespury, K.G.—You have been good enough to present 
to me a vote of thanks for the small services I have rendered to this In- 
stitute. It has been my duty on every similar occasion to repeat my sense 
* The report of the Institute’s Local Secretary in New South Wales is 
much to the same effect. There, the evils of a Government Educational 
system which does not even permit the name of God in the lesson-books are 
intensified by the extent to which the false idea alluded to in the Preface 
of Volume XVII.—“ that men of science no longer regard the Bible or the 
religious belief it inculcates”—is credited by those now charged with 
educating the masses in the Government Schools.”—Ep. 
