Mr. Asquith made a good speech on Thursday at the
so- called "Robert Browning Hall, Social Settlement, York Street" (why is such a clumsy name given to it ?), pointing out that these permanent settlements of the rich and educated among the poor and uneducated, are doing a great work which the former spasmodic incursions of East London never did, and could not have done. The whole difference was the difference between living amongst those who need your help and influence, and only. making invasions on them. Bat when he praised these settlements for their high endeavours, and said that he agreed with Leasing that he would sooner have the impulse to seek for truth, than the absolute possession of truth itself, he seems to us to have followed Leasing into something like self-contradiction. How can a man eagerly desire truth if, when be gets the chance of gaining possession of it, he professes himself content with the desire, though it is not fulfilled ?
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