EASTER SIR,—With respect I can still see your correspondenf Mr.
Lee as a purveyor of wool. He writes : 'There are no "historical facts" only impressions' and says, 'the argument seems to turn on the kind of impressions the writers of the Gospels are trying to describe.' Not at all! The argument turns on whether the 'certain experiences' mirrored in the Gospels as the core of the Christian faith were in the last resort cognitive or merely subjective. Mr. Lee's bald statement that they were 'much too vital' to come into the latter category does not alone carry much weight against all the instances in world history books, medical and psychological textbooks, etc., showing what exaltation can accomplish both in the way of good and bad works and of the establishment of 'facts.' As he truly says, we have no means of knowing exactly what happened two thousand years ago. What we do know is that the excitement in Jerusalem during the preaching of the Apostles as shown in the Acts tan the miracles and 'signs and wonders') found no race' tion in the writings of contemporary historians.'
Blenheim, Mount Pleasant Road, Poole
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