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LEISURE. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. R. COLLIER. 
(Read October 16th, 1879.) 
The importance of leisure ; riches and leisure do not always go 
together ; some varieties of the idle rich and the idle poor com- 
pared ; distinction between the sexes in the matter of the employ- 
ment of leisure ; manual employment soothing to the brain ; 
recreations of distinguished men ; importance of previous hard 
work to the complete enjoyment of leisure ; some varieties of men 
of leisure \ the pastimes of Englishmen and foreigners compared ; 
different kinds of work require different kinds of leisure ; Alpine 
climbing ; foreign travel ; newspaper correspondents abroad ; people 
who are above their work ; some reflections on eminent men ; 
variety of employment desirable \ tendency of the course of events. 
DARWINISM. 
ABSTRACT OF PAPER BY THE REV. W. SHARMAN. 
(Read October 23rd, 1879.) 
The lecturer limited the scope of his address to sub-human forms 
of life. The theory commonly known as Darwinism taught that 
all the species of animals now living on the earth were results of 
the gradual modification of pre-existing species by inheritance and 
adaptation to changed conditions of life. The doctrine it opposed 
was the old, unscientific theory of Creationism, which asserted that 
every distinct species was the result of a distinct act of the Creator, 
