24 SEPTEMBER 1954, Page 12

PATTERN OF HISTORY

SIR,-1I is ironically amusing to find in an article by Professor Toynbce, which sets out to extol the elimination of unconscious prejudice from the teaching of history, this staggering statement, ' There never has been any supernaturally privileged inner circle within the human family.'

This statement purports to abolish, with one supreme I pse dixit more dogmatic than any dogma of the Pope, the entire Christian faith in the incarnation of Christ and His revelation of Himself to His apostles ancl His church.

Commcnt on teachers of ' history' is superfluous !—Yours faithfully,

MICHAEL GEODE

The Rectory, Eythorne, Dover