entire. tion of chair, &c. for two years. lecturers. invested securely upon or in the purchase of lands or heritages Capital which are likely to continue of the same value, or increase preserved in value, or in such other way as Statute may permit, merely the annual proceeds or interest shall be expended in maintaining the respective lectureships. Second, The Patrons 'patrons' may delay the institution of the lectureships, and may delay may from time to time intermit the appointment of lecturers instituand the delivery of lectures for one or more years for the purpose of accumulating the income or enlarging capital. Third, The lecturers shall be appointed from time to time Lecturers each for a period of only two years and no longer, but the appointed same lecturer may be reappointed for other two periods of two years each, provided that no one person shall hold the office of lecturer in the same city for more than six years in all, it being desirable that the subject be promoted and illustrated by different minds. Fourth, The lecturers appointed Qualificashall be subjected to no test of any kind, and shall not be tions of required to take any oath, or to emit or subscribe any declaration of belief, or to make any promise of any kind: they may be of any denomination whatever, or of no denomination at all (and many earnest and high-minded men prefer to belong to no ecclesiastical denomination); they may be of any religion or way of thinking, or, as is sometimes said, they may be of no religion, or they may be so-called Eceptics or agnostics or freethinkers, provided only that the 'patrons' will use diligence to secure that they be able reverent men, true thinkers, sincere lovers of and earnest inquirers after truth. Fifth, I wish the lecturers to treat Subject to their subject as a strictly natural science, the greatest of all be treated possible sciences, indeed, in one sense, the only science, that as a Natuof Infinite Being, without reference to or reliance upon any supposed special exceptional or so-called miraculous revelation. I wish it considered just as astronomy or chemistry is. I have intentionally indicated, in describing the subject of the lectures, the general aspect which personally I would expect the lecturers to bear, but the lecturers shall be under no restraint whatever in their treatment of their theme; for example, they may freely discuss (and it may be well to do so) all questions about man's conceptions of God or the Infinite, their origin, nature, and truth, whether he can ral Science. Lectures to be popu lar, &c. lectures. Publica tion of lectures. have any such conceptions, whether God is under any or what limitations, and so on, as I am persuaded that nothing but good can result from free discussion. Sixth, The lectures shall be public and popular, that is, open not only to students of the Universities, but to the whole community without matriculation, as I think that the subject should be studied and known by all whether receiving University instruction or not. I think such knowledge, if real, lies at the root of all wellbeing. I suggest that the fee should be as small as is consistent with the due management of the lectureships, and the due appreciation of the lectures. Besides a general and popular audience, I advise that the lecturers also have a special class of students conducted in the usual way, and instructed by examination and thesis, Number of written and oral. Seventh, As to the number of the lectures, much must be left to the discretion of the lecturer, I should think the subject cannot be treated even in abstract in less than twenty lectures, and they may be many times that number. Eighth, The patrons' if and when they see fit may make grants from the free income of the endowments for or towards the publication in a cheap form of any of the lectures, or any part thereof, or abstracts thereof, which they may think likely to be useful. Ninth, The patrons' respectively shall all annually submit their accounts to some one chartered accountant in Edinburgh, to be named from time to time by the Lord Ordinary on the Bills, whom failing, to the Accountant of the Court of Session, who shall prepare and certify a short abstract of the accounts and investments, to be recorded in the Books of Council and Session, or elsewhere, for preservation. And my desire and hope is that these lectureships and lectures may promote and advance among all classes of the community the true knowledge of Him Who is, and there is none and nothing besides Him, in Whom we live and move and have our being, and in Whom all things consist, and of man's real relationship to Him Whom truly to know is life everlasting. If the residue of my estate, in the sense before defined, should turn out insufficient to pay the whole sums above provided for the four lectureships (of which short coming, however, I trust there is no danger), then each lectureship shall suffer a propor Accounts to be audited annually. ing the Univer tional diminution; and if, on the other hand, there is any surplus over and above the said sum of £80,000 sterling, it If surplus shall belong one half to my son, the said Herbert James after payGifford, in liferent, and to his issue other than the heirs of entail in fee, whom failing, to my unmairied nieces equally sities, in fee; and the other half shall belong equally among my One half unmarried nicces. And I revoke all settlements and codicils to H. J. Gifford in previous to the date hereof if this receives effect, providing liferent. that any payments made to legatees during my life shall be Other accounted as part payment of their provisions. And I con- half to sent to registration hereof for preservation, and I dispense unmarrie.l with delivery thereof.-In witness whereof, these presents, nieces. written on this and the six preceding pages by the said Testing Adam West Gifford, in so far as not written and filled in by Clause. my own hand, are, with the marginal notes on pages four and five (and the word 'secluding' on the eleventh line from top of page third, being written on an erasure), subscribed by me at Granton House, Edinburgh, this twenty-first day of August Eighteen hundred and eighty-five years, before these witnesses, James Foulis, Doctor of Medicine, residing in Heriot Row, Edinburgh, and John Campbell, cab driver, residing at No. 5 Mackenzie Place, Edinburgh. James Foulis, M.D., Heriot Row, John Campbell, cab driver, 5 Mackenzie Place, witness. AD. GIFFORD. Definition of religion, why wanted.-Great differences in defining religion.-Is Buddhism a religion ?-Definition of definition.-Etymological definition.- Historical definition.- Dogmatic definition.-Etymological definition of religio.-His- torical definition of religio.-Later meanings of religio.—Dogmatic definitions.-Religion and theology.-Dogmatic and practical Natural and revealed religions.-Comparative theology.- Mill. Spinoza, 1632-77. POSITIVIST DEFINITIONS OF RELIGION. Wundt.-Feuerbach.-Gruppe.-Selfishness as source of re- ligion.-Gruppe's definition too narrow. -Universality of religion.-Angle of vision.-Darwin on Tierra del Fuego.- Niebuhr and Bunsen.-Lubbock v. Quatrefages.-Preconceived ideas.-Names for religion.-Words for religion in Chinese; in MY OWN DEFINITION OF RELIGION. Is Buddhism a religion ?-Buddhism, as theoretical, not in- cluded under any definition.-Malukya-putta and Bud- dha.-Yamaka, on life after death.-Dialogue between the king of Kosala and the nun Khema.-Buddhism, as practical, not included under any definition.-The doctrine of Karma.— Definition of religion.-Religion an experience.-Experience consists of sensations, percepts, concepts, and names.-Sensa- tion and perception inexplicable.—The working of our mind.— THE INFINITE In Nature, in Man, and in thE SELF. Positivist objections.-Historical evolution.-Positivist point |