25 JUNE 1965, page 25

Bankers And Sages

• 70s.) IN ancient China, when the country was divided into a number of different kingdoms, there was a class of peripatetic sages who went round from kingdom to kingdom telling......

Topsy-turvy

UTOPIA-FANCIERS will recollect Samuel Butler's topsy-turvy Er•ewhon, where lawbreakers were treated as sick, and the unhealthy were punished. Liberal-minded citizens could......