The Origin and Development of Scientific and Professional Societies, with their bearing upon the Institute of Actuaries and its associated Profession. A Presidential Address delivered before the Institute of Actuaries on the 29th of November 1897

T. E. Young

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The Origin and Development of Scientific and Professional Societies, with their bearing upon the Institute of Actuaries and its associated Profession. A Presidential Address delivered before the Institute of Actuaries on the 29th of November 1897

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T. E. Young

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In adventuring upon a Second Presidential Address, the energy of hope and freshness which stimulated me in the former effort have vanished into trepidation of feeling. For I am unhappily conscious that I then exhausted any meagre resources I possessed of novel presentation of thought and research, and was reduced to virtual bankruptcy of serviceable suggestiveness which the interval of time has failed to annul.

Type: Research Article
Information: Journal of the Institute of Actuaries , Volume 33 , Issue 6 , January 1898 , pp. 453 - 485

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/S002026810000634X [Opens in a new window]
Copyright: Copyright © Institute and Faculty of Actuaries 1898

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^{page 455 note *} Whewell: Novum Organou Renovatum : cap. viii.

^{page 456 note *} Principles of Sociology: Vol. III: cap. vi.

^{page 457 note *} Line 313.

^{page 459 note *} White: History of the Warfare of Science with Theology: Vol. I: cap. xii.

^{page 460 note *} Weld: History of the Royal Society: Vol. I.

^{page 461 note *} Weld: History of the Royal Society: Vol. II.

^{page 462 note *} Cajori: History of Mathematics: page 138.

^{page 462 note †} Chapter on the Influences that affect the Natural Ability of Nations.

[Vide also Lecky's History of Rationalism in Europe: Vol. I: cap. iii.]

^{page 463 note *} ἄκος; σμοσ.

^{page 463 note †} έκὰς; δὴμος.

^{page 464 note *} Academus or Ecademus.

^{page 466 note *} Spencer: Principles of Sociology: Vol. III; Part vii: cap. i.

^{page 467 note *} Spencer: First Principles: cap. x.

^{page 467 note †} Lecture at the Royal Institution: 20th April 1888.

^{page 468 note *} The Friend: Section I: Essay viii.

^{page 478 note *} Whewell: Of a Liberal Education: Section V.

Whewell: Thoughts on the Study of Mathematics.

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The Origin and Development of Scientific and Professional Societies, with their bearing upon the Institute of Actuaries and its associated Profession. A Presidential Address delivered before the Institute of Actuaries on the 29th of November 1897

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