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of spiritualities. And, therefore, although feeling in agreement with him in his opening remarks, I must express the strongest disagreement with his concluding remarks.

The Chairman : A Scotchman was once asked to define " metaphysics," and he said that " when a person tried to define what he didn't know to someone who did not understand, that was metaphysics." We have had a heterogeneous mass of opinion. In the present day, when specialization has become daily more acute, sociology is really the most imperative necessity of the time. I think we may congratulate ourselves on having had a paper very fertile in producing debate and very fruitful in thought, so far as winding the biograph, as I was I may be supposed to have got any ideas of it. [Laughter.]