A PROPHECY.
[To THE! EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—The following passage from The Private Papers of Henry Ryecraft, by G. Giseing (1903), surely gives food for
thought :—
"I hate and fear Science because of my conviction that for long to come, if not for ever, it will be the remorseless enemy of man-. kind. I see it destroying simplicity and gentleness of life, the beauty of the world. 1 see it restoring barbarism under a mask of civilization ; I see it darkening men's minds and hardening their hearts ; I see it bringing a time of vast conflicts, which will pale into insignificance 'the thousand wars of old,' and, as likely as not, will whelm all the laborious advances of mankind in blood- stained chaos I " (p. 208.)
In view of recent events, who shall say that this prophecy may not be still more fulfilled in the future P—I am, Sir, &e.,
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