THE PURITAN RADICALS
Sta,—I have no personal reason to complain about your reviewer's . notice of my book, The Concern for Social justice in the Puritan Revolution, but I want to say something on behalf of the people who are described in this book. It seems to me that Mr. Ashley has missed the meaning of their central message—a weighty message whatever one's own views may be. In suggesting that the Puritan Radicals have now been "flogged" enough, he seems to regard them as dead horses ; in fact, they are living men. They are alive because they are telling us something that may be directly relevant to our present discontent. The force of their social criticism derives from their awareness of the essentially religious nature of society and the essentially social nature of their religion. They believed in the equality of the children of God, not in egalite. And there can be no doubt that they, unlike so many of our contemporaries, would have refused to hope for brotherhood among men who have forgotten their common Father.—Yours faithfully, University College, Exeter.W. SCHENK. •
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