English generosity is not coming out very strong as yet
towards the sick and wounded. We have raised about £50,000, not a halfpenny a head for the whole population. Surely we ought to send at least a million sterling, which England and Wales alone could raise by giving a shilling a head, and though, of course, there are many millions who could not give nearly so much, there are also so many who could give their tens or hundreds of pounds, that we ought to manage that at least. The effort has not yet reached the poor at all, and has not been in any degree system- atized. Every church and chapel in the kingdom should be the centre of a great effort. There is no more honourable work for neutrals, and none more likely to relieve neutrals of that appear- ance of frigid and irritating indifference, which in reality so little represents our English attitude at present.
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