Thirteenth Meeting, Friday Evening, 

 April 17th, 1911 



Lyman Lg€, B.A., President, m the ohaii'. 



Present' — ^The Executive Council and a laxge audience. 



Minutes read and confirmed. 



Proposition wa.& presented. 



On motion, duly moved and seconded, the rule was 

 suspended and. the applicant elected. 



The Pi'esident then calle-d upon Past President Dr. S. 

 A. Morgan, B.A., Ph.D., principal oi the Normal School. 

 Dr. Morgan took as his subject, The Nature and Origin of 

 Knowledge, and introduced his suhject with a reference to 

 the well-known lines on knowledge, in Tennyson's In Me- 

 moriam. The lecturer developed the two opposing views 

 commonly held in reference to the nature of knowledge — 

 the on-6 cultural, the other practical. Through simple illus- 

 trations it was shown by a comparison of biological, physio- 

 logical and mental phases of adaptation, that the practical 

 was the true theory as to the nature of knowledge, tliat the 

 end of knowledge is practical, having to do with the guid" 

 ance of conduct and the fonnation of chaa'acter. 



By considering the origin of the various phases; of 

 human knowledge in the light of evolution, it v;as shown 

 that these phases had developed from the social needs of 

 primitive man, and had gradual!}' differentiat-ed into the 

 various sciences as man's experiences became more laden 

 with meaning and his interests more complex. Thus, 

 through the differentiation of the materials and pi-oceeses 

 of man's social environment, the ever- widening circle of 

 knowledge is extended and subdivided, 



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