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1 cannot, at this hour, reply in detail to Mr. Brooke’s strictures, or those of 
one or two other speakers, but I have heard nothing which convicts me of 
any mistake, or which I do not feel that I could easily answer, and prove the 
correctness of my own statement, and the error of the counter-statement, did 
time allow. But a real discussion of the objections I entertain to Mr. 
Brooke’s statement this evening, and his former paper, would require a 
second paper a full hour in length. The thoughts I have offered are not 
hastily put together. They are the partial outcome from years of meditation 
on these subjects. Though no practical experimentalist, I have studied 
mathematical and physical science with interest from childhood. And I feel 
that most of those who talk so loudly about the grand discovery, whether 
they call it Conservation of Force, Persistency of Force, or Conservation of 
Energy, do not even understand their own meaning ; and that all genuine 
discoveries, even in mere physics, are only steps in an ascending pathway, 
that must lead careful and thoughtful minds continually upward to the 
throne of God. 
The meeting was then adjourned. 
ORDINARY MEETING, February 15, 1875. 
The Rev. Prebendary Row, M.A., in the Chair. 
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The minutes of the last Meeting were read and confirmed, and the follow- 
ing Elections were announced : — 
Honorary Foreign Correspondent : — Professor K. A. Wurtz, President 
of the Association of France for the Advancement of Science, Paris. 
Associates. — Rev. J. Kennedy, D.D., M.A., Stepney Green ; Rev. T. Ragg, 
M.A., Lawley Vicarage ; E. R. Gayer, Esq., Tavistock Square ; Miss 
S. Neale, Brighton. 
Also the presentation of the following Works to the Library : — 
“Proceedings of the Royal Geographical Society,” Part 1, Vol. xix. 
From the Society. 
“ Number.” By Rev. C. Girdlestone. From the Author. 
“ Seven Lectures on Scripture and Science,” 2 copies. By 
J. E. Howard, Esq., F.R.S. Ditto. 
u Five Important Truths of Scripture.” By C. Darby, Esq. Ditto. 
The following paper was then read by the Author : — 
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