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ORDINARY MEETING, June 18, 1866. 
The Rev. Walter Mitchell, Vice-President, in the Chair. 
The minutes of the previous meeting were read and confirmed. 
The following Paper was then read by Montagu Burnett, Esq., M.A., 
in the absence of his father : — 
ON THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SCOPE OF 
SCIENCE AND THAT OF REVELATION AS 
STANDARDS OF TRUTH. By Charles Mountford 
Burnett, Esq., M.D., Vice-President. 
N OTHING would appear to be more reasonable or more 
just than that the natural mind of man, that mind which 
was made to contemplate every visible object we behold around 
us, should be adapted and fitted for that purpose with the 
highest degree of accuracy ; so that precision and perfection 
should be in its ultimate sense the end to be obtained. 
We have, accordingly, provided for this purpose, both ex- 
ternal and internal organs of sense, which, when applied to 
the objects ar’ound, cannot*' fail to convince us, that they have 
been furnished with a view to ascertaining the more intricate 
nature, or the more obscure characters of those objects; by 
which we have put into our possession an instrument that 
conveys to us with assurance doubly sure, that we cannot be 
mistaken when they undertake to inform us on such matters. 
So that while our outward senses are engaged to put before 
us within a prescribed range all that really comprises the 
outward world, we are enabled with our inward faculties to 
compare, to reason upon, and to bring to bear the order and 
the regularity, as well as the beauty and perfection of that 
work which is set in our midst, apparently for the express 
purpose of our guidance and contemplation. 
The more we ponder upon this magnificent work, the more 
we become impressed with the sublimity and grandeur of its 
design ; so that before we ascend to those surer and higher 
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