AGNOSTICS AND SUICIDE.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SrECTATOR.1 Slit,—In your issue of February 8th you unintentionally do a grave inj ustice to agnostics by editorially commending as " sound and worthy " the statement of " H. E. T." with reference to suicide :—" For the agnostic the question natur- ally resolves itself into a balance between the pleasures and the pains of life." Not so, Sir. For the earnest and religious agnostic—and there are not a few such to whom duty is the supreme concern of life—the question is whether the pro-
longation of his life will probably be; on the whole, a benefit or a detriment to those he cares for, to his fellow-citizens in general, and to the State. I enclose my card, and appeal to your sense of fair play.—I am, Sir, &c., AGNOSTIC EX-PRIEST.
[We are very sorryif we have inadvertently hurt the feel- ings of religiotis-minded agnostics, of whom we fully realise there are many. Aninute naturaliter Christianae. It is a pity that we have no name to distinguish such agnostics from 'the agnostics who are in truth pure materialists.— ED. Spectator.]
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