INSTRUCTION VERSUS DESTRUCTION.

Thames Advertiser, Volume XVI, Issue 5186, 5 June 1885, Page 3

INSTRUCTION VERSUS DESTRUCTION.

Some senile entliusiasla We , ■ bltimod for omidciatirig : llio jloctrine that the spread offonlightonuient aiiiojig the nations of lbe*eiirth will eventually lead to . war being iibnligheili. Sucli: people aro laiiglied at ne Utopian tlroamersi' 'unpracticalthooriste,and so forth ; but statistics liavo now, .been'fouud. to;|support tho theory in a way as pleasaut aB itis surprising.: A Belgian statist, M.Leoo -Donnait, has collated the relutivo- expenditure oC European States on wiuMprpparalinns and on public '■■ education;' tho < result ■.'being to prove that tho qiinrretsdmcnesaj of- nations ie in inverse ratio to their educational status. Taking the population, basis, M.; Donnatt «■ shows the annual.expenditure of'differont countries as follows: —Frabcb, per' headj war, 20s; education, Is sd. England, war, 18s 6d ; education, 3s Id. Holland, war, • 17b 9d; education, 3a 2(1.;' Saxony, war, Us 9d; education 3s ,4d.Wurtemburg, witiylle 9d ; ediicalionj lfl ' 9ii. .;" :Bavnrin, wary 11s 9d.; education, ; 2*v6'1.. ;; Prussia; war, 10s lid ; education,; 2s sd. ;i i'.jßußßia, war, 10s 2d; education, 10il. Denmark, war, 8* 8d; education, 4s7d;* jltaly, war,. 7s Gd; education, 2s 3d Belgium, war, 6s 9d ;.cducaliqn, ; 2*..3d v .; Austria, war, 6s 8d; education, Is 6d.'''Swilz <rlnnd, war, < 4s 10d; education, 4s 2d,. It will be seen -. that .while the war expenditure of poaceInvin" Switzerland is very liltlo over its educational disbiiisementp, that of the once' wuriiko but now pneiiici kfnVdoiri : of \ DcQiimrk is just double; wliilo in Itnly tho. war voto is as 3 to 1 of the eduoiitional; Austria 410 1, Hiiesin 12.t0; I';;' andiFrnnco ■ 15tp.1: That war expenditure Klioiild bo as liigh;as 6 lo,l;''jof lief; ciluoa- • tional is due to the I tot that ijhe iniiintnins a much lamer naval force tliaii'any olhcr. Pc.wer. This is'riccesaiiry for ■ linn of her commerce, and is by: no iiieiins a warlike menace. Tlio. colonising spirit (if England also involves her in'lidavy war esnemiiiiirej which lielps ;lik aiiginent her total, Tim fiHJt tliiit spends . l()il per hciul per anmiin oil .oiliicatinir of Jim- people, wbilii:Switaurln'ml 'pnys 4s . 101, ia very-.signilioiint'. n£: tho piisitioii which oiirrival in Gential Asia;occupies in' llm company of natious. ; : Tho igniininop ■"■;. nnd servility which imijiirity of tho ■ pppiiliition of Itussin, iind ".";'" which make tliein r'dady tpiilsfpr'lliu fur- _ Iherani'i' of d'cspulicilosiff u-'rwilliiKai!rc(}ly .- ..'• disiip'peii'r, however,, iiithe coiirso;'nf time, and a great anil progiessivc p.eoplc will ittiru to.lhu tusk of limkiijg ciimjuesta; in the realms of penouful iudustry.,;. ; :: r ■;;;•/