THE CAUSES AND COST OF SEPARATION IN FRANCE.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Though you announce in your columns (Spectator, August 12th) that no reply to 061-Ls' violently anti-Catholic letter will be admitted to your columns, I trust you will allow a Catholic to challenge him on points of fact.
What sort of proof has he that the proportion of Catholic communicants in the eighteenth century in France was higher than it is to-day P How can any sane man call the Catholic) communicants in France to-day "a negligible minority " ?
Finally, will 061-zs give us his evidence that the French hierarchy " by a very large majority, if not by a unanimous vote," accepted the Presbyterian Associations Law ?
I am moved to write thus strongly because upon concluding an attack upon my religion—more packed with falsehood than any other I can remember—I see at the close of that attack (printed in the form of a letter, but longer than most articles are !) an editorial note refusing Catholics the right of reply.
I take the liberty of signing my real name. H. BELLOC.
[We have referred Mr. Belloc's questions to 06v1s, and hope to be able to publish his reply next week.—ED. Spectator.]
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