Sir: The Dangers (and, One May Add, Ineffi- Ciency) Of
absolute rule by the executive, to which you draw attenlion, are only too evident (21 June). And it has become clear that it is not only the liberty of the citizen that is thus......
Sir: The Test Of `explanation' Is The Possibility Of...
Knowledge of the properties of matter and the laws of physics makes it possible to predict the course of a physical happening. Nothing that we know of the physical universe......
Sir: I Hope That The Lucid And Interesting Theo- Logical
articles in your issue of 21 June will be followed by a similar pair about early Chris- tianity. The reader will then be better able to judge whether God has 'shown up' or not.......
Sir: Quintin Hogg's Undoubted Forensic Ability
seems to have let him down in his reply to Ken- neth - Allsop's article On religion (21 June). He upbraids Allsop for his bankrupt post-Christian sentimentality, and attacks him......
Doublethink About God
Sir: I must thank Quintin Hogg for so opera- tically demonstrating my suggestion that the position taken up by such as he can have na resort to reason (21 June). But I confess......
Sir: Mr Kenneth Alison, In His Article 'double- Think About
God' (21 June), imagines historians of the far future asking 'How were St Thomas Aquinas's five proofs of Jehovah's existence re- conciled with, say, the anti-matter theory of......
Sir : One Wonders Whether The Subject Of 'god' Is
a serious matter for discussion any more, and judging by your 'Kenneth Allsop and Quintin Hogg on God' feature, it now appears to be a subject for farce with a 'pop' journalist......
Sir: Quintin Hogg Probably Did More To Drive Home Kenneth
Allsop's point than Mr Allsop himself (21 June). His reply to Allsop's denial of the existence of God was as brilliant an example of doublethink as ever drew applause in, the......
The Lords And The Constitution
Sir: I was surprised to read your statement that the Lords were foolish to act as they did 'not because UN resolutions should be binding on a British parliament . . (21 June).......
Students: Art And Soul
Sir: There is one point which Mr Maclure's comprehensive article on 'Students: Art and Soul' (21 June) failed to mention. Each art student, having completed his pre-Diploma......
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