6 FEBRUARY 1904, Page 13

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SFECTAT011.1 Sin,—In your review

of air. Fable's " Galileo : his Life and Work" (Spectator, January 30th) I do not find a notice of a well- known incident in the life of that astronomer. When be was arraigned before the Inquisition for his alleged astronomical heresy, he replied to his accusers : "God gave us the Scrip- tures, not to teach us how the heavens go, but how to go to heaven." This comment on the Bible may be useful in the present day to those disposed to cavil at the scope of Scripture.

—I am, Sir, &c., J. HEWETSON. Hampstead.