5 AUGUST 1916, Page 13

HEGEL ON WAR AND PEACE. [TO THE EDITOR Or THE

" SPEC-TATOU."(

SIB,—May I carry Mr. E. W. Smithson's argument in last week's Spectator one stage further ? If " the best idea is to be distinguished by victory," and if " victory is the mark of moral superiority," then when the war has resulted in the victory of the Allies—as all the signs are now, thank God 1 showing that it will—the Germans by the teaching of their own philosophers will be bound to confess that the "moral superiority" is ours and not theirs, and that Sulfur is inferior to Culture. For the Germans are nothing if not logical.—I am, Sir, &o., W. K. S.