the Editor of the "Norra-Cums Dairy News."
Sin,—Mr. Bertrand Russell, being an educated Englishman of the intellectual type, 1s naturally an offence to you. And it is nov strange that the views of such a rare and searching intelligence should mean to you nothing but "unmitigated nonsense." I think there is an additional chapter to the Book of Snobs to be written, dealing with the type of mentality that manages to crawl through life on a pabulum of "nursery" ideas.
Of course you have read none of Mr. Russell's works. That is clear to any one who has_ studied the English master. No doubt your ignorance of his teachings enables you more freely to indulge in the sort of criticism which enlivened your editorial columns yesterday. I do not complain of this. It might indeed be hypercritical to do so, since this particular outbreak of yours does not differ in kind from other examples of cerebration which you inflict, almost daily, on those of us who must read your distinguished prose for reasons not connected with the study of style.
You call me a "simple" Chinese. You, certainly, deserve the epithet in view of the surprising simplicity of mind disclosed in your criticism of Mr. Bertrand Russell's fine saying about the stoutest strand in
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