(To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") Sat,—This question is
certainly the great crucial topic of civilization. May I be allowed to quote a passage from Ross's " Changing America," given in Stoddart Lothrop's great book, The Rising Tide of Colour against White Supremacy? He says:
"Assuredly every small family nation will try to raise a dam, and every big family nation will try to break it down. The outlook for peace and disarmament is therefore far from bright. One need but compare the population pressures in France, Germany, Russia, and Japan to realize that the real enemy of the dove of Peace is not the eagle of Pride or the vulture of Greed, but the Stork! "
Again, in England in Transition Mr. Wyatt-Tilby tells us:-
" It is a pleasant myth that Architecture was the first of the Arts: killing was the first and most essential art of humanity. Man destroys more easily than he builds."
Whether the coming attempt to establish the League of Nations and insure peace will be more successful than its numberless predecessors is the problem of the future. Huxley reminds us that "the intelligence which has converted the brother of the wolf into the faithful guardian of the flock ought to be able to do something towards curbing the instincts of savagery in civilized man." Yet in nature there are no rewards and no punishments: only consequences.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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