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ORDINARY MEETING, Februaey 3, 1873. 



Me. Alexander McArthur in the Chair. 



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

 ing Elections were announced : — 

 Members : — 



The Rev. William Carus, M.A. (Canon of Winchester, and late Senior 



Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), The Close, Winchester. 

 Edmund H. Currie, Esq., St. Leonard's Street, Bromley, S.E. 



Associates : — 



The Rev. Marsham Argles, M.A. (Canon Residentiary of Peterborough), 



Barnack Rectory, Stamford. 

 The Rev. G. W. Danks, Gainsborough. 

 The Rev. H. G. Tomkins, Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare. 

 Sydney Turner Klein, Esq., 24, Belsize Park. 

 Miss S. H. Carruthers, Cisanello, Pisa, Italy. 



Also, the presentation of the following Work for the library : — 



" Transactions of the Royal United Service Institution." Part 69. 



From the Institution. 

 The following paper was then read by the Author : — 



REMARKS ON SOME OF THE CURRENT PRIN^ 

 CIPLES OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM. By the 

 Rev. C. A. Row, M.A., &c. 



THE subject to which I am about to draw your attention is 

 one which has not hitherto been considered in this Institute. 

 Yet its claims on our attention are strong ; for not only are the 

 principles on which historical criticism is based of a strictly 

 philosophical character_, but more than any other subject which 

 is discussed in this room, they have a direct bearing on Revela- 

 tion. As Christianity is an historical revelation, the investi- 

 gation of the claims of its facts and documents to be received as 

 historical comes strictly within the limits of this science ; its 

 relation to religion is therefore more direct than that of any 

 other, 



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