13 MAY 1911, Page 13

STATE INTERFERENCE.

[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTLTOR.1 Stn,—The Spectator " inclines" to favour Governmental "com- pulsion in the matter of insurance " (Spectator, May 6th, 1911, p. 683). Before it commits itself irrevocably to this opinion may it be suggested that the great natural laws which have brought our race to its present efficiency have been those of the survival of the fittest, natural selection, and the instinct of humanity P An interference with their operation by " compul- sion" tends to their atrophy.

Will people realise the importance of insurance more by

" compulsion" or by suffering P-1 am, Sir, &c. S. R. B.