29 JUNE 1901, Page 17

MR. BRADLATIGH.

ETo TH/1 EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.") Snr,—You say, in your brief notice of "Makers of the Nineteenth Century" (Spectator, June 22nd), that Mr. Bradlaugh did actually deny the existence of God. I hold no brief for Mr. Bradlaugh ; but when his Life, by his daughter, was published I carefully read it, and in it he is said to have strongly insisted that he was no atheist,—that he was as careful never to deny as he was careful never to affirm the existence of God. I have not the book by me, but I feel very sure that he asserts this of himself, and that his daughter corroborates her father's assertion, and that he deeply resented being called an