KULTUR AND CULTURE.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume 7, Issue 348, 20 December 1915, Page 4

KULTUR AND CULTURE.

Writing in the Daily Malta Chronicle, a correspondent quotes the following extract from a letter written by Mr. Lewis Mitchell in the London Times:— "May I illustrate the difference between Culture and Kultur? In 1779, England and France being at war, the French Admiralty, not knowing of Captain Cook's death, issued the following rescript : _ " Captain Cook , who sailed from Plymouth in 1776 on board the Resolution to malee discoveries on the coasts of Japan, etc., being on the point of returning to Europe, and such discoveries being of general utility to all nations, it is the King's pleasure that Captain Cook shall be treated at a commander of a neutral or allied Power, and that all captains of armed vessels who may meet that famous navigator shall make him acquainted with the King's orders, etc' That was French culture 136 years ago. In this present month of August, a shipwrecked English vessel, stranded on a neutral shore, was shelled by a German destroyer, and her drowning officers and men made targets for machineguns. That is the German kultur of to-day." _______