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ORDINARY MEETING, June 7, 18G9. 
The Rev. Walter Mitchell, M.A., Yic e-President, in the 
Chair. 
The Minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the Hon. 
Sec. announced the Election, as a Second Class Associate, of 
The Rev. Henry Walsh, M.A., Bishopstrow, near Warminster. 
The Rev. Dr. Irons then read the following paper, in continuation of 
Parts I. and II. in the Journal of Transactions, pp. 1 and 86, et seq. ante : — - 
ANALYSIS OF HUMAN RESPONSIBILITY. By the 
Rev. William J. Irons, D.D., Prebendary of St. Paul’s, 
Vicar of Brampton, Middlesex. ; Mem. V.I. 
{Third and concluding Part.) 
CONSPECTUS. 
XV. Why we pause in our argument : — 
How M. Comte’s Philosophy stands in our way. 
■ — Divisions of opinion among Positivists ; 
M. Comte’s Divisions illogical — and unreal. — 
(How we have no concern with mere speculations.) 
At what point M. Comte comes across our argument. 
His dealing with abstractions as agents. 
His having no philosophy of Beginnings of Motion. 
His evident collision with facts of our being. 
English Positivists more logical. 
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Our appeal, with them, lies also to facts. 
They have no philosophy as to ethical Defects. 
(A brief Digression ; as to The True-always ; and its Metaphysics.) 
Determination of the case against M. Comte. 
(§ 103-115.) 
XVI. Defects in the present Probation of man. 
What they imply. — No antecedent objection to the 
(1) idea of Assistance to moral agency ; 
(as to knowledge, and to power :) 
No antagonism of the moral and spiritual admissible in 
Deontology. 
(2) Revelation specifically interferes with the Moral system ; 
(which might be incomplete without it.) 
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