A NEW EDUCATIONAL EXPERIMENT. Lents 
of moral responsibility, and utterly deficient in self-respect, they 
rejoice in using the poor powers with which they are endowed by 
Nature to endeavour to cheat and outwit a world from which they 
have experienced nothing but harshness and contempt. 
The mocking laugh, the coarse jest with which the streets of 
our large towns too often resound—unlovely and mirthless sounds— 
are all signs of the vacant mind. It is for us, as educators, to 
find food capable of assimilation by such minds—to open out to 
them the wonderful storehouse of knowledge, to substitute for 
the pleasures of the sense the higher pleasures of the intellect ; to 
render unhappy, helpless burdens upon society cheerful and useful 
members of it. 
Since writing this paper in 1897, the writer has heard of two institutions 
foe Par the ort e 
for the training of mentally deficient children, in the Southern Hemisphere— 
one at Kew, Victoria, and one at Adelaide. | 
No. 16.—TEACHING VERSUS EDUCATION. 
By Miss H. Newcoms. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
No. 17.—THE RATIONALE OF MIRACULOUS CURES 
IN MODERN DAYS. 
By Dr. 8. T. Knaaes. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
No. 18.—EVOLUTION AND SOCIOLOGY. 
By Dr. T. F. Macponap. 
(Read Wednesday, January 12, 1898.) 
