JUSTICE AND ABILITY V. GENEROSITY AND INFERIORITY.
[To THE EDITOA 07 TUN "SeacTarou.1 STU.--Herbert Spencer wrote in the 'eighties :- " Hot-headed philanthropy, impatient criticism, is, by helter- skolter legislation, destroying normal connexions between con- duct and consequence, so that presently, when the replacement 'of justice by generosity has led to a redistribution of benefits irrespective of deserts, there will be reached a State having for
its motto the words, 'It shall be as well for you to be inferior as to be superior: "
The indictment applies more completely to-day. "Lloyd Georgeism " is in the ascendant, and " our sternly individu- alistic Premier," as a writer in the Fortnightly describes him, has place, but not power. We want a league for the reassertion of the vital importance of justice and ability as against generosity and inferiority, and of the principle that it is not as well to be inferior as superior. Who will start the ". Herbert Spencer League " P —I am, Sir, &c., W. R. DAVIES. Kingselear, Camberley, Surrey. gn the British Constitution Association, 11 Totbill Street, -Westminster,-the writer of the above and those who agree -with him will find the organization they desire.—En. SpeCtator.1
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