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vvrites : “ Without them I should be unable to give my 
lectures ; " another says, “ Had it not been for the publications 
of the Institute I should never have read a paper on such a 
subject." (In this case the audience, a metropolitan one, 
among whom were 300 clergymen, requested the publication 
of the lecture.) The works of Reference in the Library are 
also utilized by Members giving lectures ; and every effort 
is made with a view of rendering the Organization of the Insti- 
tute as useful as possible. 
12. The People's Edition is much used by lecturers, and 
its popularity is very encouraging. The Special Fund has to a 
considerable extent enabled the Society to carry out the second 
proposal in the last Report, in corresponding in regard to the 
Society's work with leading men in the United States, and in 
every British possession throughout the world.* It has also 
enabled them to reply to the communications from the 
Australian colonies pressing the great necessity for a brief 
effective examination of Matthew Arnold's last work, which 
was being extensively circulated in those colonies. The 
valued paper entitled “ Matthew Arnold and Modern Cul- 
ture," (vol. xii., p. 269) — so arranged as to supply this want 
and bring the Society's objects before its readers — was sent 
to almost every minister and several of the laity throughout 
the whole of the Australian colonies and New Zealand. A 
similar request from India, in reference to Strauss' Philosophy 
was met by the People's Edition of the careful paper entitled 
On the Principles of Modern Pantheistic and Atheistic Phi- 
losophy as expressed in the last work of Strauss, Mill, &c.," 
(vol. viii., p. 266), in which the Philosophy in question is care- 
fully analyzed. This paper has been extensively circulated 
throughout the three Presidencies. 
13. The republication in America of some of the Institute's 
Papers continues, and cannot be without a good effect. 
14. The Bookseller Agents continue to sell the People's 
Editions of the eight papers so published. 
15. The entire Newspaper Press of the United Kingdom 
has been communicated with, and to some extent the Foreign 
Press also. The Institute and its objects are indebted to 
the Press, in England, in many of the Colonies, and in the 
United States. 
* Bishop Cotterill’s paper (vol. xn., p. 312), which has attracted muc 
attention at home, was used in doing this (having been specially arranged so 
as to bring the Institute’s objects before its readers). The author has since 
stated that his correspondence in regard to this paper, “ shows that it has 
reached readers in every part of the world.” 
