623ED ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, S.W., ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 6th, 1920, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



Lieut. -Colonel Hope Biddulph, D.S.O., m the Chair. 



The Minutes of the previous meeting were read, confirmed and signed. 

 The Hon. Secretary announced that the following Members and 

 Associates had been elected since the last meeting in J une : — 



Members—Sir James H. Cory, Bart., M.P., Alfred C. Cross Esq., 

 Kenneth S. Maurice Smith, Esq., J. Hoskin, Esq., K.C., LL.D. 

 Associates. — H. J. Peirce, Esq., the Rev. A. E. Williams, the Rev. 

 W. L. Armitage, the Rev. C. J. Bailey, the Right Rev. Bishop 

 of Calcutta, H. M. Messenger, Esq., W. E. Dyer, Esq., W. S. 

 Ainslie, Esq., Alex Wills, Esq., Alfred W. Gray, Esq., W. A. J. 

 Giles, Esq., the Ven. Archdeacon O. G. Dobbs, M.A., the 

 Rev. Dr. J. T. Marshall, Dr. A. E. Cope, the Rev. J. A. Brunberg, 

 Dr. Margaret Boileau, Edward C. de Segundo, Esq., J. S. Edwards, 

 Esq., the Rev. Harry C. Green, J. S. M. Jack, Esq., and Miss A. C. 

 Carpmael. 



Foreign Corresponding Members. — The Right Rev. Bishop of Honan, 

 and the Right Rev. Bishop of Bendigo. 

 The Chairman then called upon Dr. David Anderson-Berry to read 

 his paper on "Human Psychology— Experimentally Considered." 



H UMAN PS YCHOLOG Y—EXPERIMENTALL Y CON- 

 SIDERED. By David Andekson-Beery, M.D., LL.D., 

 F.R.S. (Edin.), F.S.A. (Scot.). 



PSYCHOLOGY (Gr. Psuche, mind ; logos, theory), literally 



the Science of Mind. 

 Science is knowledge systematized. 



Knowledge is of two kinds : (1) Knowledge a priori, that is the 

 apprehension of self-evident principles and facts. (2) Knowledge 

 a posteriori, that is the knowledge of facts of perception, internal 

 and external. 



Knowledge of the first class is called necessary because its objects 

 cannot be conceived as non-existing or existing in any way 

 different from or opposite to what we apprehended them to be ; 

 whereas knowledge of the second class is denominated contingent 

 as we are capable of conceiving their non-existence or their existing 

 in a different form. 



Try the experiment. Take the great reality Space. You 

 will find that you cannot conceive its non-existence or appre- 

 hend it as being different from what it is. Take the realities of 

 Self and Body, and you will find that you can conceive their 

 ceasing to exist or existing in a different form from what they do. 



Pure sciences such as mathematics are built on knowledge of 



