"It would be a most important and valuable part of the Society's
work to discover in various ways--chiefly by the employing fit
persons to look for, inspect, and make known--such materials for
Church-History as remain unpublished."

And

"That no person, not wholly illiterate and ignorant of
Church-History, could go about the metropolis only, seeking
after such matters during one month, without gathering into his
note-book much valuable matter."

The Doctor proceeds:

"By those who have not been led to consideration or inquiry upon
the subject, this may be deemed a mere speculation; but those
who are even slightly acquainted with the real state of things,
will, I believe agree with me that if men, respectable and in
earnest and moderately informed, would only set about the
matter, they would soon be astonished at the ease and rapidity
with which they would accumulate interesting and valuable
matter. Transcribing and printing, it is admitted, are expensive
processes, and little could be effected by them at first; but
merely to make known to the world by hasty, imperfect, even
blundering, lists or indexes, that things unsought and unknown
_exist_, would be an invaluable benefit."

We pass over the section on _Correspondence_, and that on the
establishment of _Provincial Societies_; but from the last, _On the
Privileges of Members_, we quote at even greater length.