The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1896-01-29

HISTORIANS MEET.
Annual Meeting Yesterday
of New Jersey State So
ciety at Trenton.
OFFICERS FOR 1896 ELECTED
Extremely Interesting Subjects Dis
cussed By the savants-Del-
egates Present.
speefal to the Jsrseu Citu Ncscs-

ciety was held in the Supreme Court
room at the State House yesterday.
During the morning session the atten-
ton of the society was devoted exclu-
sively- to business. The reports of the
Executive Committee, the treasurer and
the librarian were received. all of which
showed the organization to be in excel
lent condition.
AS is known; arrangements are now in
progress for he removal of the society
buildings on Broad street, Newark, to
the building now occupied by the Library
Society in the same city. For the past
two years attempts have been made on
the part of the Historical Society to se1
cure a controlling interest in the stock
of the Library Company. In its en-
deavors the society has secured about
one-third of the stock. and the indica-
tons are hat after an adjudication of
some impending difficulties that the en-
tire block of stock necessary for the con-
troll Of the library will be secured.
A large number of new members were
elected. The following newspaper edi-
tors throughout the State were added to
the list
Henry D.. Winton, H~ackensack; Hugh
M. Herrick, Paterson; Sinnickson Chew.
Camden; Horace L. Bonsall, Camden;
Frank F. Paterson. Camden: James N.
Edmonds. Cape May City; ]. w. Rich
ardson, Bridgeton; John w. Newlin,
MillviIle; Frederick W. Evans, Newark;
Henry A. Steele, Newark; William T.
Hunt. Newark; Augustus S.Barber. ST..
Woodbury.; q. K. Pangborn. Jersey City;
John N. Voorhees,, Pennington; John
Carpenter, Jr, Clinton. Hunterdon
county; John L Murphy, Trenton; Jos
man, Somerville; Charles S. Robinson,
Princeton; Rev. Thomas .tHanlon, Pen
ningtoni Howard 3. Tinda1l. New Bruins,
A. Bel, Red Bank: E M6xey, Applegate,
taMn; G M : I Psts akr1ick w;,l R5,stersoa;
a ss9 : P @sasss pf Rtahard = M'l aooama n.
Charles c. Mcbride, Elizsabeth; W. s.
Elizabeth; F. w. .Runyon, Plainfield:
Josiah Ketchen. Belvidere.
The Committee on Nominations report
1896, who were duly elected
President-Samuel H. Pennington, M.
D.. Newark.
Trenton; the Rev. George S. Mott. d.
D.. Roseville: Jonathan W. Roberts, Nor
ristown.
Corresponding secretary-wiIiam Nell
Recording Secretary-Ernest e. coe.
Newark.
Observation-Disclosures w. Ricord, New
ark.
Executive. CommitteAJonathan W.
a. Depne, NeWars; Na MoaIlsa Niles. Mad.
ison; Robert F. Ballantine, Newark; Car
rett p. W. yroom. Trenton; James Nell
Newark: William Clark. Newark: Cyrus
Peck. Newark; James E. Howell, New
ark.
And also the following standing COM
Finance. Spencer Goble, Theodore
Coe. James B.. Orion. Charles D. Rock
Nelson, aastin seotf, P p 81 b. E EGH0mi B. ;.
Halsey, the Recording Secretary.
rick w Ricord, Aaron Lloyd. George j.
StatisticsIF. Wolcott Jackson. Arthur
coe. Edward H. Stokes
NominationsrJ. Spencer Goble, Carrot
D.. W. vroom, the Rev. Allen H. Brown.
Atlantic City; Bergen. VIM j. johnson.
Hackensack: Burlington. Clifford Stanley
Sims. Mt. Holly; Camden, John R. Ste
Lewis II. Stevens, Cape May. City; Cum
beriand, VIM. e. Potter, Bridgeton; Es-
sex, Ernest E. Coe. Newark; Gloucester.
H. Winfield, Jersey City; Hunterdon, II.
Race. M. o., Pittstown: Mercer, VIM. s.
Stryker, Trenton; Monmouth, James e.
sey. Moristown; Passaic, VIM. Nelson,
Paterson; Somerset. A. Y. D. H~oneymanl,
soinervile; Sussex, Thomas e Bunnel.
p, Elizabeth; Warren, J. H. Griffith.
At the close Of the morning session re-
Ambassador Theodore Runyon. in Berlin.
were introduced. The chairman of the
committee was Hon. G. D.. w. Vroom of
In the afternoon DR.. Daniel G. Brinton,
of philadelphia. an eminent scientist ana
author Of many monographs dealing with
discoveries of an archaeological character
In Mexico and Central America. read a
paper entitled THE Ethnologist's View of
History"
Dr., Brinton is also the author of the
sey Indians, the title Of which is THE
Lenape and their Legends
The paper practically dealt with the
method Of writing history. The past. the
speaker said,can only illurnine the present
been more publications dealing With his
tory than in the present. The question
may we'll be asked, What is the aim Of
hisfory?" DR.. Br,nton reviewed the several
ideas upon the true. philosophy Of history:
In the first place. he said, it is claimed
e eaa ave n1Ss0r yyn S I and IN an anp aseufhcs rs Thia
View. In the second place, ii. is claimed
evidence. This is the view taken by the
! most Of the writer's upon religious and
| political history. This view Is faulty in
| that It is deductiye rather than inductive.
! The third view is that history should be a
| portraiture of the evolution OF the species.
It's basis is the maxim. man has dey-el-
4 oped from the brute through fixed avs.
This is faulty, because It Is divfnitory.
! DR.. Brinton hen offered his view,
| The view Of an ethnologist. Hea did not
| claim to be associated with the Almighty.
! and, secondly, .to read mans history Is
| the result Of operations of a divine law,
he has he yves to others. and they in
part owe much to him.
study Of the ethno or groups. which,
| Of course, is not unlike a SPECIES IN ma
f1ral history. Some of the striking attri-
Ehufes of man in the group are language,
government, religion, the arts, such as
| biiiding. pottery making. etc. and the
lamusements. such as music and paint
was that the conscious. and deliberate
pursuit. Of ideals is the highest casualty
n h5s1rnan action. The ruling idea of the
American people is the divital idea, or
| The idea of the rich man, the whole. en-
ereies Of the American people being bent
,,naT f1e ACQUISITION of wealth. DIR. Brin-
fan claimed that the historian should
rave 4 poetic instinct, so that he himself
no,iid feel the spirit that animated the
noefs and singers Of a great race. The
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