[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.]
SIR,—As one studies the correspondence in your columns on this important subject one cannot repress a feeling of surprise at the temerity of most of the writers.
In other branches of knowledge, discussion is usually reserved for specialists. One does .not, for instance, find cinema stars " joining issue with Sir James Jeans on Relativity, or. farmers objecting to the views of Sir Walford Davies on Church Music. A doctor is supposed to know • more about medicine than, say, a journalist ; but when Religion is under discussion everybody seems to feel himself qualified to meet SL Thomas Aquinas or Bishop Gore on equal terms. The accumulated spiritual experience of cen- turies is brushed aside by the simple negations of the amateur.
To the onlooker, the position may well seem a trifle absurd.
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