HUMAN PSYCHOLOGY. 



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Lieut. -Colonel Mackinlay said : I rise with great pleasure to 

 propose a vote of thanks to our learned lecturer. 



I must confess that when I looked at the programme for the 

 session I thought that though the first paper on the list would 

 probably be valuable to read in the annual report, that it would 

 not be likely to attract a large audience to hear such an abstruse 

 subject discussed. 



I was therefore agreeably surprised on entering the room to 

 find a considerable number present ; my surprise was increased 

 when the paper was read, because all gave such good and sus- 

 tained attention, though a good many of us are probably not very 

 well acquainted with the subject. 



It is a matter of congratulation to the Victoria Institute that 

 the first paper of the session is a decided success, and I am sure 

 we all agree in hearty thanks to Dr. Anderson-Berry. His humour, 

 and good humour, which so well sustained him in bearing the severe 

 assaults to which he was subjected have been most helpful in 

 giving life and attractiveness to his paper. 



Author's Reply. 



Mr. Chairman, sir, before dealing with the criticisms made I would 

 draw the attention of my inquisitors to a remark in italics on p. 13 

 (read on to p. 14), where I deny any omniscience. Alas, I desired 

 friction, not dreaming of a friction which would produce sparks 

 sufficient to light a fire that would consume me to ashes at the 

 stake ! 



In reply to Mr. Coles, let me say that the dictionary suh voce 

 Universe says " in a restricted sense, the earth." It is in that sense 

 I use the word. 



Mr. Leslie makes my brain whirl, yet because I do use the word 

 process in defining Experience I cannot be held to use it as a synonym 

 for that word, nor does his argument require that I should, for 

 although a pound of tea is equal to a pound of coffee because both 

 are equal to a pound of metal (called a weight), yet tea is not coffee. 

 Where would experience be without a faculty ? A blind man has 

 no experience of sight, being without the faculty or power of vision. 



I maintain that there are two classes of phenomena — see Bain, 



