17 SEPTEMBER 1881, Page 13

M. GAMBETTA AND FRENCH RELIGION.

[To TEE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

SIR,—Commenting on Gambetta and French religion, you intimate that reverence for One above man is antecedent to the tie which binds man to man. St. Paul seems to reverse this : "If a man love not his brother, whom he hath seen, how can he love God, whom he hath not seen." The sense of what man owes to man is surely a larger part of Christ's religion than it ever has been of any of the Churches. Pace Sir John Lubbock, the growth of this sense of what man owes to man is the most remarkable feature of modern times.—I am, Sir,

B. B.