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ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING. 



Prof. Hull spoke in warm support of the Resolution, and 

 recalled that many years ago their Vice-President had proposed him, 

 Prof. Hull, as Secretary of the Institute. The Resolution was 

 carried unanimously. 



The Chairman, in returning thanks to this Resolution, said 

 that the need for the work of the Victoria Institute was as great 

 now as it ever had been. In the fifty years, now nearly completed, 

 of the life of the Institute, they had seen many changes : changes 

 in science, in politics, in philosophy ; but Truth had not changed, 

 though men's opinions changed continually. It was for them to 

 remember that " Truth is great and will prevail." That being 

 so they should not be in a hurry, but should be willing to wait 

 patiently for it to declare itself. They ought not to be too sure 

 that they had cleared up every difficulty. There was great 

 teaching in that word of St. Paul, that " now we see, as in a 

 glass," — that is to say a mirror,—'* darkly." Plato had said that 

 the thoughts and the feelings of men were like the shadows thrown 

 into a cave from the objects outside. He well remembered when 

 the one scientific theory which seemed immutable, not to be changed 

 or shaken, was the atomic theory ; but now they had got far beyond 

 that. The atoms were now considered to be highly complex 

 structures : they were built up of electrons. Now the War had 

 come and given them other things to think about than scientific 

 theories or abstract philosophies, but here also, he would press upon 

 them the same goal : " Let us patiently seek after Truth." 



