DOES the man who travels in seventy-miles-an-hour expresses, telephones to California and listens to radio programmes from all over Europe, think faster than the man who walks from his eottago to his field, works with clumsy tools all day, and never goes farther than his market town 7 Maybe ho does ; and maybe, he accepts new ideas more readily; but are his critical powers any stronger? The relation between the physical conditions of men's lives and their mental outlook will be Mr. Lambert's subject, and he will illustrate it by reference to England in the last three hundred years.