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Sir: Paul Johnson's Summary Survey Of This Century's...

another thing, 24 September) is fascinating. His philoso- pher 'ought to be a thinker of pure and penetrating intelligence who uses it both to seek truth and acquire wisdom and......

Grateful Pensioner

Sir: The vitriolic article on Armand Ham- mer and the Leonardo Codex by William Cash (`A. sordid saga of greed and Weiss', 17 September) made good reading. Family feuds,......

We Are All Popperians

Sir: I am having a problem with Paul John- son's thinking. In his recent intellectual engagement with Richard Dawkins your columnist simply asserted the existence of God. Now Mr......

Humane Killer

Sir: My attention has been drawn to a letter from Mr Mullen (Letters, 24 September) about some research I did some 46 years ago on the physiology of pain. Mr Mullen would do......

Letters Terrible Teachers

Sir: Melanie Phillips is to be congratulated on her stringent criticism of educational lib- eralism in our time (`The strange death of liberal Britain', 17 September) and the......