560th OEDINAIiY GEN Eli AL MEETING. 



HELD IN THE C( )N E E II EN( K 1 1 A EL, 1, ( 'ENTIt A L BUILDIN( iS, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1914, 



AT 4.30 P.M. 



The Right Hon. The Eahl of Halsbuky, F.E.S., President 

 of the Institute, occupied the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding Meeting were read and signed and 

 the Secretary announced that Mrs. Wynne, Lt.-Col. Henry Smith, 

 M.D., M.Ch., Mrs. Hester Smith, M.D., B.Ch., ( Sol. A. F. Laughton, C.B., 

 Thos. Fitzgerald, Esq., Miss Ethel James, B.A., W. H. Ash, Esq., J. P., 

 Rev. W. E. Glanville, Ph.D., LL.B., John C. Dick, Esq., M.A., and 

 Harold W. Browne, Esq., had been elected Associates of the Institute. 



The President welcomed the Victoria Institute to its new 

 premises. He congratulated the members in that they no longer 

 had to climb up two nights of stairs to their Meeting-room. He 

 knew from his own experience that the Council and Officers had 

 taken a great deal of trouble in their selection of their new quarters, 

 and he thought that all present would feel that their efforts had been 

 most successful ; the more so that they had secured this more comfort- 

 able home for a somewhat smaller sum than they had been paying 

 previously. The President then called upon the Secretary, Mr. E. 

 Walter Maunder, to read his paper on " The Principles of World 

 Empire." 



THE PRINCIPLES OF WORLD-EMPIRE. By E. 

 Walter Maunder, F.E.A.S. 



THPtEE years ago. the Victoria Institute enjoyed the high 

 privilege of listening to the Annual Address, delivered by 

 Sir Charles Bruce, on " The True Temper of Empire." Empire 

 he defined as " An aggregate of administrative units, of diverse 

 constituent elements, professing allegiance to a central sovereign 

 authority " ; and adopting from him this definition, I wish to 

 enquire into a special case of Empire ; that of Empire co-extensive 

 with human population ; empire over the entire world ; universal 

 Empire. 



The phrase " the true temper of Empire " is due to Bacon, 

 who considered that it " is exhibited in the state of things which 

 exists when the two contraries, sovereignty and liberty, are 



