Or when you say that the Belgians were so ignorant as to think they were being butchered when they weren't, we only wonder whether _you_ are so ignorant as to think you are being believed when you aren't.

Thus, for instance, when you brag about burning Venice to express your contempt for "tourists," we cannot think much of the culture, as culture, which supposes St.Mark's to be a thing for tourists instead of historians.

This, however, would be the least part of our unfavourable judgment.

That judgment is complete when we have read such a paragraph as this, prominently displayed in a paper in which you specially spread yourself: "That the Italians have a perfect knowledge of the fact that this city of antiquities and tourists is subject, and rightly subject, to attack and bombardment, is proved by the measures they took at the beginning of the war to remove some of their greatest art treasures." Now culture may or may not include the power to admire antiquities, and to restrain oneself from the pleasure of breaking them like toys.

But culture does, presumably, include the power to think.