G. M. Young repeats his
Leslie Stephen Lecture
The Lecture was originally delivered at Cambridge last May.
What, G. M. Young asks, arc the elements in a civilisation that preserves the continuity of its traditions from one generation to another? What can weaken or shatter that continuity of culture, what maintains its development? Readers of Mr. Young's work on Victorian England and in other historical fields will recognise these m questions to which he has long devoted his attention