14 JANUARY 1922, Page 16

A PSYCHOLOGICAL CHRIST.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECT/ITOR."] SIR,—Most readers will agree with your reviewer that certain features of the Freudian theory, always unwholesome, become poisonous when applied to religious subjects. But I fail to see what is gained by indicating in the review, and thereby communicating to your readers, these polluting ideas. It is no safeguard against mephitic suggestion to say: " Yes; isn't it nasty?" The virus will work all the same, and may result in spiritual blood-poisoning which it may be difficult to cure.