papers in this volume were originally com- 1 posed either as popular lectures to miscel¬ laneous audiences in Ontario Xoyoi tiqotqsjitixoC, or loyoi fjQixoi, or Xoyoi fiais/zxixoi, as an older sophist of Greece would have called them : or — in other cases — as lectures to University societies, authors’ societies and the like in Toronto, Montreal and Ottawa : or, in the third case, wer…