2 JULY 1904, Page 24

THE MATERIALISM OF ENGLISH LIFE.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:9 SIR,—I can only reply to your correspondent in your last issue that if he thinks, as he seems to think, that scientific inven- tions change the content of life, rather than its mere form, he is a Philistine indeed, and all the hosts of (lath are at his heels. The value of such inventions depends on the use man makes of them,—i.e., on the kind of being he is. At present his scientific ingenuity is exhibiting him (at Port Arthur and elsewhere) as a monster.—I am, Sir, &c., H. W. MASSINGHAH.