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TRANSACTIONS OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
The courtier. Church v. State. Archbishop. Pluralism. In- 
compatibility of the two offices and resignation of Chancellorship. 
Council of Tours. Eesults. Henry and the clergy. The Anglo- 
Saxon courts. Separation of ecclesiastical from civil courts. 
Council at Westminster. Council at Clarendon.- Attempts at 
escape. Parliament or Great Council at Northampton. Sentence 
and appeal to Eome. Escape to the Continent. Proceedings of 
Henry at home and Becket abroad. Becket appeals to Henry 
and to the bishops. Attempts at reconciliation. Coronation of 
the young prince and excommunication of all who took part. 
Henry visits Normandy. Eeconciliation effected; advantageous 
to Becket and discreditable to Henry. Excommunications. 
Interdicts. Becket's return. High-handed proceedings. Arch- 
bishop of York appeals to Henry. Henry's passionate utterance. 
Becket's murder. Escape of the murderers. Henry's anxiety. 
Henry's submission to the Pope and expiation. Review and 
summary. 
THE RACE AND THE NATION; 
Or, The Elements of True Nationality. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY REV. J. ERSKINE RISK, M.A. 
(Read 17th November, 1887.) 
Nationality a modern idea. Only cities, states, empires in 
antiquity. The Roman empire the nearest approach to the 
modern idea of a nation. What is a nation — its true elements 1 
(1) Race*? (2) Language? (3) Religion 1 ? (4) Common interests'? 
(5) Geographical distinctions'? If not these, what remains'? The 
man himself and his necessities. A spiritual family, so to speak. 
Nationality the result of a truly national will ; in other words, a 
unanimous and spontaneous expression of the people's will. Two 
selected instances to test the principle. Concluding with the 
poetess's aspirations, " even after death," for her people's acknow- 
ledged nationality. 
