MEETING. 7 



Coiicluslua. 



16. Ill the '^ Address" issued at tlie foundation of this Insti- 

 tute, the following words were used : — " The idea that Science 

 and Revelation are directly opposed to each other is spreading 

 with fearful rapidity:" and it was stated that one of the '^Insti- 

 tute's objects" would be "to investigate fully and fairly, but 

 rigidly, all the facts and arguments put forth as truths newly 

 discovered by Science and as being contradictory to the Scrip- 

 tures." The Journal teems with papers and investigations 

 which carry out this object, and it is even now satisfactory to 

 note the many points on which the Science of twenty years 

 ago, on account of the advances of Knowledge and the steady 

 manner in which this Institute has done its work, has receded 

 from controversy with Revelation. In History and Physical 

 Geography this is notably the case. In Geology and other 

 sciences much has already been done ; and the way in which 

 it has been accomplished gives full hope that in the future, as 

 in the past, the work of the Institute will be, in the words of 

 its motto. Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam. 



SHAFTESBURY, 



President. 



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