ORDINARY MEETING, January 6, 1873. 

 C. Beooke, Esq._, F.R.S.; Vice-President, in the Chair. 



The Minutes of the last lueetmg were read and confirmed, and the follow- 

 ing Elections were announced : — 



Member :— Captain M. S. NoUoth, R.N., United Service Club. 



Associates : — Thomas Ball, Esq., 217, Brixton Road ; Joseph Lush, Esq., 

 Southsea ; H. S. H. Jones, Esq., C.B., Llynon, Holyhead. 



The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



ON DARWINISM AND ITS EFFECTS UPON BELL 

 GIOUS THOUGHT. By C. R. Bree, Esq., M.D., F.Z.S. 



1. It is necessary for me to make two definitions — 

 («) What I mean by religious thought/^ and 

 {b) What I mean by ^' Darwinism.^^ 



3. In the expression religious thought I wish to include — 



{c) The consciousness of a God, which is more or less 

 innate in every human being. 



{d) The existence of a God, as we prove it to reasoning 

 minds, by the study of nature in all its varied 

 forms. 



{e) The knowledge of a God and Saviour derived from 

 the Inspired Word of God. 



3. In these definitions, while I exclude all doctrinal questions, 

 I include that great portion of the human family which, more 

 or less, believes in Divine Revelation and the Immortality of 

 tlie Soul. 



4. By Darwinism, I not only mean the hypotheses of its 

 author, but the expansion which has been given to them by 



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