29 APRIL 1922, Page 13

[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.") SIR,—Mr. Blatchford seeks

to belittle our brain as a mere "creamy mass of dust and water," but I ask which assumption is the more arbitrary—to infer that the power actually in office at the terminus of the visual telephone is the seer, or to postulate a "soul " interned in the head of every seeing animal down to the lowest? ("No soul, no sight "!) And has not the "creamy mass" other testimonials?—I am, Sir, &c., E. M. O.