LOGICAL CONCLUSIONS ?
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sta,—From a careful study of contemporary opinion both written and spoken I gather that : (1) Our financial system (Free Trade) has enabled- us to feel the immense strain of the war less than any other nation, to finance our Allies, and to save Europe. The inference drawn apparently is that we should change it. (2) Our old liberal education in the Public Schools, based on literature and the classics, has enabled us to produce with great rapidity, in spite of the lack of former military training, a race of young officers who in initiative, adaptability, and power over men have surpassed those of the enemy. The deduction is made that our former ideals-of education should be consigned to the scrap-heap. (3) Germany's intense devotion to a purely material and scientific efficiency has endangered civilization and brought her own Empire to utter ruin. Therefore we had better adopt it. I submit that the logical process underlying these remarkable conclusions stands In need of further explanation.—I am, Sir, &c., Trinity College, Gienabnond, Perthshire. P. E. ROBERTS.
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