20 APRIL 1974, Page 5

Naturally unfair

'Sir. Having plodded for some months Inv through the many column-inches kyards, by now?) of 'prep-school' tsstianity as proffered by Martin eLl,llivan, how delightful to read one ,2lunin-1nch of realism in one of the r "lost remarkable paragraphs I have rer read in the Spectator (well over el-,1 Years, week after week). I refer to Victor Montagu and his aragraph beginning, "All nature is :signed to be unfair and this very fact f What calls forth man's appeal to God .(ThStrength to withstand its unfairness only this principle were more aY recognised we might see a je-"ne of the vague utopian socialistic lOgles and a renewal of the spinaspects of life. 'Fairness' will never "Pan-devised and the laws of nature not be denied in a millennium of s.ndays.

John H. Moore

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