23 MAY 1952, Page 18

Philosopher and Poet

Stn,—On behalf of your Catholic, Anglican, Quaker, Wesleyan, Baptist, Methodist, and even Unitarian readers, allow me to thank you for/ following the panegyric on the rationalist Bertrand Russell with the witty " Epitaph on An Agnostic." That ought to settle the hash of "the greatest philosopher alive."—Faithfully, ROBERT WILLIAMSON.

Mercer's, Wineham, Hen field, Sussex.

[But how rarely in fact is post hoc propter hoc.—Ed. Spectator.]