'Towssns A New. Mawten or Liviwe 'Swarthmore. Lecture" 1836, "De. Howard. collier, Header In' Indus: tial Bhd Medicine. Birmingham, University. Allen Pinon London: "Cit 2/8 Paper Anyone who expects a detailed programme of political and economic changes to inaugurate a new world will be disappointed in Dr. Collier's Teeture. And perhaps it is a legitimate ciltielsm of his address that he Rlides se easily past the question when ther radical thought Is not as urgent-' ly required as consecrated goodwill. The lecture, too, will suffer in the: opinion of many readers through two further features. There Is more than.
hint of the university lecturer die tating notes under alphabetical heads and indulging an undue fondness for coining hyphenated phrases such us "worship-action," " {riendship-disciline," "personal-social," and even "formally-learned." Again, for the general reader, there will coom 100 much domestic discussion interwoven with the treatment of issues of universal importance. This, of course, is not necessarily a criticism of the Jecturer, who addressed himself to particular occasion and audience: the; Snnual meeting in London of the Society of Friends.
With these qualifications ventured, the patiently discerning will find cause for gratitude in Dr. Colllet's lecture. Possibly they will feel that if only our brilliant and instructive minds could be illumined by flame from the undying fire whence the lecturer finds his inspiration, the world would gwittly emerge from its present distresses.
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