STUPIDITY.
(To TUN ICD1T011. oY TUN " sr ecrnerott.*J SIR,—Your article on this subject in last week's issue recalls Isaiah's arraignment of the people of Israel in Isaiah i. That his chief accusation against them was brutish stupidity has been emphasised by Professor George Adam Smith (Vol. I., chap. 1): " My people do not know, they do not consider; this is the burden of their offence, they do not think." Those who do not know Dr. Smith's work will remeinber the famous appeal to reason which the Prophet puts into the mouth of Jehovah : " Come now, and let us reason together, saith the Lord"; or better, "Come, let us bring our reasoning to an end." It is interesting and valuable that a modern journal should recognise, and insist on, the duty of thought, on the impossi- bility, at least in nine cases out of ten, of classing stupidity with goodness. Those of us who are young enough to believe in the present may venture to call it a hopeful sign of the times.—I am, Sir, &c., EIRENE WIORAM.
Broomfield, Weybridge, Surrey.
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