WHY I 'CEASED TO BE A REVOLUTIONARY
[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sta,—Swerving from one extreme to another " G. L. G." but illustrates in your issue of July 31st the proverbial swing of the pendulum, and it is good to know the editor of the Spectator is not in full agreement with his conclusions. Might one who belongs to no Party, whether Revolutionary or Reactionary, remind him of John Morley's dictum, " Evolution is not a force, but a process ; not a cause, but a lain " ? " Pro- gress," John Morley tells us, "is 'not automatic, in the sense that if we were all to be cast into a deep sleep for the space of a generation we should all awake to find ourselves in a greatly improved social State. The world only grows better, even in the moderate degree in which it does grow better, because people wish that it should, and take the right steps to make it better . . . social energy itself can never be supplemented, either by evolution or by anything else."—I am, Sir, &c.,
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