NEWTON'S THEOLOGY
Stit,—Professor Andrade's information on Newton's theology is not upto-date. The subject has been investigated by the Rev. H. McLachlan, D.D., and the results published in his The Religious Opinions of Milton, Locke and Newton. It may suffice to say that Newton wrote to Locke, "The time will come when the doctrine of the Incarnation, as commonly received, shall be exploded as an absurdity equal to transubstantiation." One great lesson of Newton's life is being ignored, namely, that period of rest in which to think. Graham Wallas discovered that practically every one of the great men of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries had his education interrupted This fits in with the letter you publish from Mr. Stanley Unwin. But will the educationists learn this lesson?
They will not.—Yours, &c., R. F. RATrRAy. 26 Queen Edith's Way, Cambridge.
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