PRESIDRNTIAL ADDRESS ITARRIS. Ixi 



as an attitude of mind or disposition, a sympathetic attitude 

 of mind towards all mental products and intellectual interests. 



The study of science is in many cases able to confer a 

 truer culture than half a life-time spent in studios or around 

 pianos. Your painter or musician may be a perfect ba*- 

 barian, ignorant, superstitious, self-satisfied, and intolerant. 

 There need be no fear of allowing science to be freely taught. 

 Not science, but a hideous, perposterous, soul-destroy in-.? 

 ethic it is, that has made the Germans what they are to- 

 day. Science without a love of the beautiful, without 

 respect for the past, without poetry, without sympathy, 

 without reverence is the most repulsive product of the mind 

 of man. 



Such is the science of our enemies; and it has led them 

 into the bottomless pit of national suicide. But such truly 

 is science falsely so-called. 



Science, the true, is the patient, loving interpretation 

 of the world we live in; it is a striving to attain not merely 

 to an understanding of the laws whereby the world is governed, 

 but to the enjoyment of the bsaut}^ and order which is every- 

 where revealed. And the minds of men capable of attaining 

 to such heights of appreciation, and the evidences around 

 us of an all-prevading personality are only so many additional 

 phenomena to be apprehended as con.stituent elements of 

 that vast, sublime, age-enduring cosmos which we call 

 the Universe. 



After remarks by Dr. Bronson, Dr. E. Mackay, Dr. 

 A. H. MacKay, and Mr. Piers, it was resolved that addi- 

 tional copies of the Pre.sident's address be printed for early 

 circulation. 



The annual report of the Treasurer, Mr. Bowman, was 

 presented. It showed that the receipts for the year ending 

 30th September, 191G, were S364.70, the expenditures 5129.30, 

 and the balance in current account $235.40. The report 

 having been audited, was received and adopted. 



