Excerpt from History of the Speculative Society: From Its Institution in 1764 I. Historical Review of other Debating Societies. II. History of the Speculative Society. III. Its present Constitution and Laws. IV. Testimonies to the value of Debating Societies, and ticular of the Speculative. V. The List of Members. VI. The Subjects of Debate. VII. Lists of Office - bearers, &c. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.