572nd ORDINARY GENERAL MEETING, 



HELD IN COMMITTEE ROOM B, THE CENTRAL HALL, 

 WESTMINSTER, ON MONDAY, JUNE 21st, 1915, 

 AT 4.30 p.m. 



The Right Hon. the Earl of Halsbury, F.R.S., President 

 of the Institute, occupied the Chair. 



The Minutes of the preceding meeting were read and confirmed. The 

 Secretary announced the election of the Revd. James L. Evans as an 

 Associate of the Institute. Also that the Council had selected as the 

 subject for the Essay in the Gunning Prize Competition : — 



" The Influence of Christianity upon other Religious Systems." 



The President regretted to announce that Professor Naville was 

 prevented by ill-health from being present with them, but he had sent 

 his Address, which the Secretary would read. 



THE UNITY OF GENESIS. 



By H. Edouard Naville, D.C.L., LL.D., Professor of Egyptology 

 at the University of Geneva. 



"VY7H0 has not heard of the Higher Criticism and of the 



microscopical analysis it has made of the Old Testament, 

 especially of the Pentateuch ? Taking its rise in 

 Germany, it has spread rapidly in the neighbouring countries, 

 in France, in Holland, and even in the British universities. It 

 asserts its authority, I may even say its dominancy, in a some- 

 what arrogant tone, pretending that its principles and systems 

 are above discussion, and treating opposition with contempt. It 

 is a relief to find that there are critics, particularly in England, 

 who are not only thoroughly scientific, and I may add courteous, 

 in discussion, but who approach these questions with a profound 

 and innate reverence for what we call Holy Writ. I am 

 thinking among others of the late Professor Driver and of 

 Professor Skinner. It is the eminent Cambridge Professor 

 whom I shall quote in preference in this lecture. 



I intend neither to arime with the critics on general 

 questions nor to show how weak, and even baseless, are some of 



ANNUAL ADDRESS. 



