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ORDINARY MEETING-, February 3, 1873. 
Me. Alexander McArthur in the Chair. 
The Minutes of the last meeting were read and confirmed, and the follow- 
ing Elections were announced : — ■ 
Members : — 
The Key. William Carus, M.A. (Canon of Winchester, and late Senior 
Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge), The Close, Winchester. 
Edmund H. Currie, Esq., St. Leonard’s Street, Bromley, S.E. 
Associates : — 
The Rev. Marsham Argles, M.A. (Canon Residentiary of Peterborough), 
Barnack Rectory, Stamford. 
The Rey. G. W. Danks, Gainsborough. 
The Rey. H. G. Tomkins, Park Lodge, Weston-super-Mare. 
Sydney Turner Klein, Esq., 24, Belsize Park. 
Miss S. H. Carruthers, Cisanello, Pisa, Italy. 
Also, the presentation of the following Work for the library : — 
“ Transactions of the Royal United Service Institution.” Part 69. 
From the Institution . 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
REMARKS ON SOME OF THE CURRENT PRIN- 
CIPLES OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM. By the 
Rev. C. A. Row, M.A., &c. 
HE subject to which I am about to draw your attention is 
one which has not hitherto been considered in this Institute. 
Yet its claims on our attention are strong ; for not only are the 
principles on which historical criticism is based of a strictly 
philosophical character, but more than any other subject which 
is discussed in this room, they have a direct bearing on Revela- 
tion. As Christianity is an historical revelation, the investi- 
gation of the claims of its facts and documents to be received as 
historical comes strictly within the limits of this science ; its 
relation to religion is therefore more direct than that of any 
other. 
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