Thirteenth Meeting

Thirteenth Meeting December 15th 1870

 

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Meeting at Mr Watt’s house.
Present Messrs Brunner, J.T.Brunner, Muspratt
Carey, Mond & Watts.

Words for definition
Instinct, Faith, [xxxx]
Faith was taken first,& afterwards the following
definitions were agreed to, for Instinct
Definition agreed to by Palmam qui meruit ferat,
Unversagt, Erin go bragh, Nemo, Onward & Upward,
Instinct is the faculty which prompts action
without previous reasoning.
Paulatim not present.
                        -----------------------------------
Word for definition   Faith
Definitions proposed.
Faith is the faculty by which certain people
persuade themselves to consider as true what they
[do] not know                                                    Unversagt
Faith is belief without [exercising] the powers of reasoning
                                                                          Erin go Bragh
Faith is unreasoning belief                               Onward
Faith is confidence in a superior power
                                                                           Nemo


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Faith is [trust] that accepted [character] will be

[xxxtained]                                                Paulatim

Faith is practical belief in a proposition

                                                                   Palmam qui meruit ferat

Faith is active belief

     Sent by “Gradatim” who was not present

                    Definition agreed

Faith is trust in that of which we have no [abso-

-lute] knowledge.

                    Agreed unanimously

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Dec 15th 1870

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