LEST THEY FORGET.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 197, 14 May 1908, Page 4

LEST THEY FORGET.

_ Sir,~ln, that most delightful book, ;"The Tr "r. Was Thursday," the author, Mr. Ji. G. Chesterton," 'makes ono of tho. now army, of _ intellectual policemen, 1 ' recruited to copo with a vast Anarchist conspiracy engineered by the keenest brains iiv Europcrand Britain, -deliver--himself. as follows■ ViO" say that tho'midst dangerous criminal is tho educated criminal.. We say-that • the most dangerous criminal' now is tho ■ entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to I him, burglars and bigamists, are' essentially | moral men ; , my heart goes'out to them. They ! accept 7the essential ideal of 'manj' ''tlioy merely seek it.wrongly.. Thieves-respect property. They merely wish, th'e'' property to be- > i lr property that thoy may' more perfectly respect it. But philosophers dislike property.. property; they wish-to' destroy the very ''idea''" of "'personal -possession • Bigamists respect marriage or they would nott highly ceremonial and oven ritualistic formality of 'bigamy." But philosophers despise marriago'as' marriage/' MiiW deroi.s ( respect ( human lifej tliey merely'wish toattain;a grentor fuliiosfof humaii lifo'in themselves by tho sacrifico of what seems to $i cm ., ,i °i. S, 8 ? 01 '! . But philosophers nato Jire.••itself.. <thoir-<-;9wn ••'.as r-tn'iibh': as other P e °P ] e s. If -for-.-tho''=Words '"philbsopher f.p ~ Ph'losophors 'in tho above,-the words ■•Socialist' and " Socialists "bo substituted, : it seems to me that Mr, Chesterton's man'in blue has very aptly- summed up ,1 section'of educated men who aro endeavouring to deceivo. tlid, ivorkers' of the; Dominionfit/.'the present time—l am,, etc.,.,. May 12. • Q.E.D.