1 FEBRUARY 1930, Page 20

PERSONAL SURVIVAL

[To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] Sri,—If it does not detract from the interest it does diminish the value of Dr. Peers article on ".Personal Immortality " that the question is begged all through it. Further, while the eloquent passage from Victor Hugo is quoted with approval does the view expressed in it differ in essentials, though no doubt it does in loftiness of.thought, from the creed of the Red Indian, who was buried with all his hunting materials so that he might continue in the next world his life in this P And, again, how does Dr. Peel adjust " a God who numbers the very hairs of our heads will naturally see to it that every man's powers are not wasted, but employed to carry out His Divine Purpose " with, taking one example out of many, the recent tragedy in the cinema at Paisley, when seventy young lives were cut short, for any " lesson " from such things hai surely been learnt long since in the ages of tragedy P—I am,. Sir, &c., Glasgow.