GERALDINE LITERARARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2255, 17 September 1891, Page 3

GERALDINE LITERARARY AND DEBATING SOCIETY.

This Society’s meeting was largely attended on Monday evening last. The Rev. A. B. Todd occupied the chair, and a very interesting evening was spent in discussing ’an excellent paper on “ Self Culture,” read by Mr Orbell, senr. The subject was a very broad one, and the essayist, with the short time he had at his disposal, dealt with it in a very concise and pointed manner. He considered that a University education was only a start on the way to self culture. Self culture broadened and trained the mind to think well, and that should be the highest aim in study, and not merely to learn things off by rote. It was not the quantity of study that one got through that made the wise man, but a development of the mind so that it could think as correctly as possible on everything that came before it. He thought most people should take up some kind of study apart from their daily '■ work, as it helped them to drive their work, and not allow their work to drive them. He instanced several studies that afforded excellent recreation in this manner, such as Mechanics, Chemistry, Botany, and others. During the evening Mr Ferguson gave a good reading of Dickens’s address by Sergeant Buzfuz. The next meeting of the society will be a miscellaneous night.