THE MANUFACTURE OF PAUPERS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.'] SIR,-21. propos of your interesting utterances upon our present social outlook, it has sometimes occurred to one that we may derive hope for the solution of our problems from the recol- lection that we are only suffering from the excess of our virtues ; or, rather, from the fact that we have made idols of three of our virtues—namely, tolerance, humanity, and charity—to the exclusion of others equally worthy. Our difficulties will begin to vanish when we have realised that toleration does not mean that every one should be allowed to say and do what he pleases; that humanity does not mean that nobody should ever suffer any pain; and that charity does not mean that every one should be given what he asks Pluckley, Kent.
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