LIVE-BURIAL. 
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HOW TO BEING ABOUT THE MILLENNIUM. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY GILBERT SLATER, B.A. 
(Read 24th January, 1889.) 
How to bring about the millennium means, if considered a question 
in economics, how to abolish poverty and hard times. Hard times 
explained as a consequence of our currency system. Mr. Marshall's 
remedy. Poverty of the majority of the population a necessary 
consequence of the law of wages under free competition, and not 
to be prevented by thrift and temperance of the workers, by 
limiting the population, by trades' unionism, nor by co-operation 
and profit-sharing. Recent action of the London School Board 
and County Council, in boycotting employers that do not give fair 
wages, recommended as an example to be followed ; such action, 
carried as far as possible, might do much to diminish poverty ; if 
not, the only means left seems to be Socialism. A possible 
Socialist programme sketched. Prospects of Socialism in England 
briefly considered. 
LIVE-BURIAL. 
SYLLABUS OF PAPER BY W. J. SQUARE, F.R.C.S. 
(Read 31st January, 1889.) 
Introductory remarks. Dread of live-burial common to all ages 
and countries. Directions given by will and otherwise for the 
mutilation of the body before interment, to ascertain the certainty 
of death. Narration of a remarkable case of live -burial as 
reported to the lecturer. Other cases of reported live -burial. 
The signs or evidences of actual death. Precautions taken by 
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