THE OTHER SIDE. .
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.]
Sin,—Lord Sydenham gives one an opening when he brings in the word " mentality " in his letter in your issue of July 28th. In the last paragraph but one of his letter he lays it down " that Socialism, the attractive basis of which is loot, is and always has been the deadly enemy of Christianity is my strong contention." I personally cannot understand the " mentality " of people who hold such contentions. If Socialism is " loot," is not " business " as applied in all its various " Christian " ways to a large extent " loot " ? Even if Socialism, in the abstract, were a better state of things than the existing order, and even if we assume that Socialism is anti-Christian--which assumption many will demur to —must we all oppose it on such a doubtful assumption, when we may even think that life, under the existing Christian order, may not be what it might be ? Is this the key to one way of looking at a question ? Is this the way that Lord Sydenham looks on the Indian question too ? I do not write myself as a Socialist, but more as " a looker-on." If Lord Sydenham dallies with the word " mentality," and serves up a contention such as I have quoted from his letter, I should imagine most of your readers possessed of average " mentality " will gladly look to, or at, " the other side."—
I am, Sir, &c., W. G. QuINT0N.
Blindwell Cottage, King's Teignton, Newton Abbot, South Devon.
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