19 JUNE 1941, Page 12

" CHRISTIAN CIVILISATION"

Sm,—Mr. Crick's letter in your last issue raises an interesting point. There is no real contradiction between, say, " The sacredness of the family," and the alleged " holiness " of Mein Kampf. Hebrew and other scholars will bear me out in saying that the words " sacredness " and " holiness " and others akin to them imply no specific moral or spiritual quality ; they only take on that quality from the nature of the deity to whom the persons or things which are " holy " are con- secrated. Mein Kampf in this sense is " holy," but to the god of Hitler. The Christian family is likewise " holy " ; but to a very