14 NOVEMBER 1908, Page 17

SOCIALISM AND SAVAGERY.

[TO TER Boma ov vas " Sevorkvos."] Snt,—The unique position held by the Spictator secures for it readers of all shades of opinion, but for sheer divergence of views your last issue furnished an extraordinary instance. In the letter of the Rev. T. Stenhonse, in order to show the dangers of Socialism, he gives a quotation from Maspero's "Dawn of Civilisation " ; but to my mind the passage he quotes is so applicable to the average working man under the capitalist system of to-day that I have learned the passage by heart for constant use in my advocacy of Socialism.—I am,