31 MAY 1913, Page 18

A QUOTATION.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—The quotation of which Mr. C. E. Ferris asks the origin in to-day's Spectator is from " The Botanic Garden" by Erasmus Darwin. The second line should run, " He who allows (not `permits') oppression shares the crime."—I am,