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“ Proceedings of the Royal United Service Club.” From tlie same. 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Institution.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Royal Colonial Institute.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Geological Society.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Palestine Exploration Fund.” Ditto. 
“ Warwickshire Natural History Society.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Sydney Observatory.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the Canadian Institute.” Ditto. 
Proceedings of the American Geographical Society.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society.” Ditto. 
“ Proceedings of the United States Geological and Geographical Survey. 
“ Bombay Meteorology.” By C. Chambers. From, the 
Secretary of State for India. 
“ Continental and Island Life.” By Dr. J. W. Dawson, C.M.G. Ditto. 
“ History of Licking County.” By J. Smucker, Esq. 
“ Isms, Old and New.” By the Rev. G. C. Lorimer. Ditto. 
-‘London Review.” From A. McArthur^ Esq.yM.F. 
“ Israel’s Wanderings.” From L. Biden, F.^q. 
“ A Pocket of Pebbles.” By the Rev. W. B. Philpot. From the Author. 
“ J. L. Paschal.” By A. Lombard. Ditto. 
“ Mosaic Authorship of Deuteronomy.” By the Rev. A. Stewart. Ditto. 
“ The Refutation of Darwinism.” By T. W. O’Neill, Esq. Ditto. 
Also Smaller Papers from Professor Claypole, Enmore Jones, Esq., and 
the Rev. Dr. Sexton. 
The following paper was then read by the author : — 
AN EXAMINATION OF MR. SFENCEROS THEORY OF 
THE WILL.” By the Rev. W. D. Geound. 
W E saw in a former Paper that Mr. Spencer made common 
cause with the Realist Philosophers in asserting that 
the deliverance of consciousness must take precedence of all 
conclusions arrived at by a process of Reasoning. In holding 
such an opinion he shows his own good sense, his philoso- 
phical grasp and acumen, his clear scientific conceptions, and 
his determination to found his system on none of the mere 
alluvial strata of the Mind, but to get down far beneath to the 
solid rock which is underlying all. Here we can be com- 
pletely at one with him. Any product of Reason, any conclu- 
sion arrived at by Reason, can, in the nature of the case, only 
be an elaboration of the materials given by consciousness, and 
it is far better, if we want to know what is in consciousness, 
to examine and analyse its primary elements, rather than a 
finished elaboration of these, into which some other element 
may have been imported. Every man of science acts on this 
