Sir: Although a regular subscriber to the SPEC- TATOR I
have little idea of the ages of your contri- butors. I had always thought of Mr Simon Raven as a man in his early twenties making his living by Perpetrating odd and immature notions in your columns. I am horrified to learn from him, if one can take his letter at its face value, that he is old enough to be the father of a fifteen-year-old boy and is bent on indoctrinating his unfortunate son with his own ideas.
I would certainly agree with the importance Mr
Raven gives to the saying 'man is born, man suffers, anc. man dies' but what a sorry philosophy he draws from it. If these views had been put forward by him in an ordinary article I would not have written to you but the thought of his son reading his father's letter appals me.
I can only hope that' the 'carefully chosen school' he attends will endow him with a more balanced view of things and that in spite of his father he will in due course find more in life than the sort of selfish self-indulgence his father urges on him.
Perhaps the whole letter is a hoax and Mr Raven is still only twenty-three.
Salisbury, Wilts.
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