ORDINARY MEETING-, January 6 , 1873. 
C. Brooke, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the follow- 
ing Elections were announced : — 
Member : — Captain M. S. Nolloth, R.N., United Service Club. 
Associates : — Thomas Ball, Esq., 217, Brixton Road ; Joseph Lush, Esq., 
Southsea ; H. S. H. Jones, Esq., C.B., Llynon, Holyhead. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
ON DARWINISM AND ITS EFFECTS UPON REID 
GIOUS THOUGHT. By C. R. Bra®, Esq., M.D., F.Z.S. 
1. It is necessary for me to make two definitions— 
(a) What I mean by “ religious thought/'’ and 
(b) What I mean by “ Darwinism.” 
2. In the expression “ religious thought” I wish to include — - 
(c) The consciousness of a God, which is more or less 
innate in every human being. 
{cl) The existence of a God, as we prove it to reasoning 
minds, by the study of nature in all its varied 
forms. 
{e) The knowledge of a God and Saviour derived from 
the Inspired Word of God. 
3. In these definitions, while I exclude all doctrinal questions, 
I include that great portion of the human family which, more 
or less, believes in Divine Revelation and the Immortality of 
the Soul. 
4. By Darwinism, I not only mean the hypotheses of its 
author, but the expansion which has been given to them bv 
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