To the Editor of the "Nonta-Cmwa Darty News."
Stn,—Now that "David" has stated his views on the above query surely your readers are impatient no longer, yet I remain unconvinced that my views are either pernicious or extreme on the one hand as those of Nietsche on the other. Your correspondent asserts that I attempt to prove that Scotsmen of to-day are less physically ft than their forbears. I sought to prove nothing of the sort for such is not my belief and the context of my letter does not bear such a construction.
As a Briton myself I am hardly likely to belittle my fellow Britons, and as to the recent correspondence between Mr. Lloyd-George and the Duke of Sutherland I pro-badly "David" himself. I leave than "David" himself. I leave "B.A.T." to speak for himself though I fail to grasp where either he or myself assumed that soldiers are all sterile or that their wives are barren, or that war wipes out all the physically fit of a nation en-
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