LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.
" A NEW WAY OF LIFE."
[To TOM EINTOM Or TVA " SPECTATOU.1
SIR,—Many are no doubt already deeply impressed by the truth given in the Fortnightly Review, and quoted in your article of last Saturday :—" The problem will not depart. We shall have to meet it not by battleships alone but by a new way of life." We must meet our competitors in a spirit of calm earnestness and of action based on thought. Individuals may be convinced of this.; but how is the nation to be cbetwn to a quieter, simpler, and yet more earnest line of thought in everyday life P The general tone of the upper sooiety is against it, and individuals who disapprove are unwillingly drawn along in the current. Is it not possible to make a stand P This is an era of leagues ; cannot a league be formed to avoid the fever a extreme fashions, of exclusive pursuit of pleasure, of the worship of party to the neglect of straight- forwardness and honesty in public life? Such a league must be no class movement ; it concerns rich and poor,—the whole
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