Sixth Meeting

Sixth meeting March 29th 1870

 

Preamble.

Mond was in town and hosted the sixth meeting. Perhaps more than the others in the Club, Mond was determined to start his own company. He had never been an employee in the strict sense, but his income from licensing the sulphur recovery process fell short of expectations, no more than £2,100 for the year ending 31st March 1870. The ever cautious Hutchinson wrote a cheque for £34 11s. 6d. for the quarter, whereas Mond had anticipated a £1000 for the year.
 

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Majority definition agreed to.
Religion is man's reverence for a superior being.
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March 29th 1870
Meeting held at Mr Mond's house.   Present:
Messrs. Mond, Carey, Brunner, Muspratt & Watts.
Words proposed for definition.
Liberty, Conscience, Science.
Definitions proposed. Liberty
Liberty is freedom of action & speech governed
by moral [??]                               Erin go Bragh
Liberty is opportunity for [useful] growth
                                                      Paulatim
Liberty is the right to do what you like as far as
compatible with the general well-being.
                                                      [Unversagt]
Liberty is perfect freedom to act, limited by no
condition save that of inflicting injury [on]
[one]                                              Palmam qui meruit ferat
Liberty is freedom from oppression
                                                     Nemo
"Freedom of" in the first definition was taken &
explained to mean "- the absence of restriction to"
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Definition proposed - Liberty is the absence of
every restriction [upon actions], except that they
shall inflict injury [onto others?]
Unversagt, Nemo, Erin go Bragh, Palmam qui &c
Minority definition -- Liberty is opportunity
for useful growth                      Paulatim
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Definitions proposed --- Conscience
Conscience is the name given to an instinctive
perception of right & wrong supposed to be in-
-herent in rational beings
                                            Palmam qui meruit ferat
Conscience is the idea of an inward being
                                            Erin go Bragh
Conscience -- moral taste                      Unversagt
Conscience is the faculty by which men distin-
-guish between [moral] right & wrong.
                                                                 Paulatim
The word "instinctive" was withdrawn from the first
definition as not essential to a definition.
Definition proposed - Conscience is the faculty by
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which men distinguish between moral right &
wrong.                Agreed unanimously.
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Definitions prosed for - Science
Science is the study of the sequence of phenomena
                                                                       Paulatim
Science is the term applied to those branches of
human knowledge  which are, or are supposed
to be, conformable to law                          Nemo
Science is systematised experience
                                                                    Unversagt
Science is knowledge classified
                                                   Palmam qui meruit ferat
Science is the pursuit of the sequence of aster-
-tained facts                                    Erin go Bragh.
Definition proposed.
Knowledge systematised
                                agreed to unanimously
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                                                                         March 29th 1870

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