YOUTH'S PROBLEM
Rumbold has given me from the non-Christian angle a very fair criticism of my article, but I very much doubt whether from either of his alternative solutions to Christianity we of the "submerged" generation could draw the same strength to face death or the satisfac- tion to our intimations of immortality without which it is difficult to face life.
This war has given birth to a generation of disillusioned idealists, but, Christians or not, our ideals and our disillusions give us common ground to work on, and I would maintain in the words of M. Jacques Maritain that all " these conceptions of human dignity and freedom, these dis- interested values, are the residue from a heritage of ideas and sentiments which once were Christian, but are now no longer called so."
I think that applies to Mr. Rumbold's materialised spirituality, as well as to his serene, lofty, scepticism, and I am left more than ever con- vinced that it is the urgent duty of every Christian authority by means of law and education to redirect these straying modern ideals into the one original harmonious channel.—Yours sincerely,
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