The 622xd OEDIXAEY GEXEEAL MEETING, 



HELD IX CO^^DIITTEE ROOM B, CEXTEAL HALL, 

 WEST:>nXSTER, OX MOXTJAY, .JL":XE Uth, 19:20, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



A. T. ScHOFiELD, Esq.,, M.D., ln' the Chaie. 



The Minutes of the previous Meeting were read, confirmed and signed, 

 and the Hox. Secretary announced the following elections : — 



Member : James Steel, Esq. 



Life Associate : The Rev. Dr. E. D. Lucas, Principal of Fomian 



Christian College, Lahore. 

 Associate : Mrs. Frederick Henle. 



The Hon. Sect.etary read a letter from Lady Halsbury apologizing 

 for the inability of Lord Halsbury to take the Chair as promised owing to 

 illness. 



In the regretted absence of Lord Halsbury through illness. Dr. Schofield 

 took the chair, and introduced the Very Rev. Dean of St. Paul's. 



FREEDOM AXD DISCIPLIXE. Bv the Verv Eev. E. 

 Inge, D.D., Dean of St. Paul's.' 



rp^HE Germans said that the late war was a trial of strength 

 _L between DiscipEne and Liberalism. This is perhaps the 

 truest statement of the issue that has yet been made. Our 

 opponents prided themselves on having evolved, for the first 

 time in history, a scientific State — a polity in\shich all the forces 

 of the comm.unity are or can be mobilized for a common end, 

 so that there is no waste, no confusion,, no hesitation, and no 

 division. The management was in the hands of experts, who 

 can act without talking. They are not obliged to persuade 

 anybody ; they demand and receive implicit obedience. Under 

 such a system the whole nation submits for the most part 

 willingly to an invisible drill-sergeant. There is no right of 

 private judgment ; right and wrong have lost their usual 

 meanings. Eight for the individual means doing what he is 

 told ; for the State it is the interest of the political aggregate. 

 We do not need to be convinced of the terrible efficiency of a 

 nation so organized ; we know it to our cost. It is less obvious, 

 though probably true, that such a polity can only be developed 

 as a mihtary empire, in which the efiective force is not in the 

 hands of a mass of voters, nor of class-organizations such as 



