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PRE FACE. 



The well-known Canon Parfit gave us one of his instructive 

 Mesopotamian lectures. Some of his theological statements, how- 

 ever, provoked a good deal of criticism. iThe veteran Gosset- 

 Tanner, at the age of ninety, read a well-reasoned paper on the 

 Tripartite Nature of Man ; and the Annual Address, by the Very 

 Rev. Dean Wace, of Canterbury, on the present state of Old Testa- 

 ment Criticism, brilliantly closed this successful year. 



Everything goes to show the great value of the method of this 

 Institute in having the papers placed in the hands of the audience 

 at the time ; for there can be no doubt psychologically of the wisdom 

 of the words entering the brain through the double channel of eye 

 and ear, rather than by the ear alone. Although the expense is very 

 considerable, the benefit is so great that the Council are resolved to 

 continue the present custom. 



The Victoria Institute is greatly indebted to those gentlemen who 

 have come forward and read papers of such varied and interesting 

 characters, and the Council is looking forward to an interesting 

 year, with still further increased members. The list of forthcoming 

 papers is full of varied interest. 



Alfred T. Schofield, 



Editor. 



November J 1921. 



