AGNOSTIC MORALITY.
[TO TIIE EDITOR OF THE EPHOTATOR.".] Sin,—Your writer in the Spectator of November 3rd, seems to have satisfied himself in looking at the better known names among the contributors to the symposium on "Why Live a Moral Life ?" in the Agnostic Annual. Two of the names he mentions—viz., Dr. Wallace and Professor Momerie, are not hf. the Agnostic ranks at all ; while Mr. Leslie Stephen has only a very short article indeed ; in reviewing our Agnostic point of looking at things, your reviewer would have been much wiser if he wished to get at an idea of our principles, to have read the longer article by Mr. F. J. Gould. Those of your readers who feel interested in the Agnostic standpoint in relation to morality, cannot do better than read his article, which I must not trespass on your space to quote extensively from. Suffice it to say that Mr. Gould says that the main factors in deter- mining conduct are "prudence and sympathy," and I believe that most persons who read his article will admit that he is right, and that theology has less share in the matter than many are inclined to think they believe, —I am, Sir, &a., [We did read Mr. Gould's paper, but thought it inferior in lucidity to that of the author of "Supernatural Religion," which was quite as genuinely agnostic, as elaborate, and was !placed by the editor in the first rank:—En. Spectator.]
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