THE NEED FOR UNITY.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May one at this hour draw attention to the words of Pascal—"toute multitude qui ne se recluit l'unite est con- fusion, et toute unite qui ne depend pas de la multitude est tyrannie "? May one then warn the sectionalists who are work- ing with a single eye to the advancement of the interests of their section that the whole is greater than any section: that a section may temporarily inconvenience the whole, but that, on whomsoever the whole shall fall, it will grind him to powder? Exasperation with sectionalism is growing and may become implacable. Folk who came through the war are determined to preserve the unity which that war brought about, even if they are forced by untoward circumstances to resort to the desperate expedient, under the Crown, of what the Greeks termed a Tvpavvos — the strong man armed who keepeth his house in peace at one with itself.—I am, Sir, Le.,
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