RELIGIOUS TEACHING
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I cannot accept as " natural " an interpretation which is a reductio ad absurdum, of all loans of argument the easiest. The appeal of the philosophers cited by Mr. Mozley, Herbert Spencer, John Mill and Bertrand Russell, is to the reasoning faculties of mature minds ; perhaps that is why they have so little influence. They represent a school of thought that has existed in every and flourished in most ages, contem- poraneously with religious belief. The fool who " said in his heart ' There is no God ' " can seldom have refrained in any age from saying it aloud, and has generally been free to proclaim his faith in a negative.
The Blasphemy Acts remain in full force on the Statute Book, contemporaneously with the enjoyment by public speakers (not in " uniform ") of freedom of speech to those who will listen.—Your obedient servant, Anxoi.n Wnsox.
Wytickes, Much Mahlon, Hertfordshire.
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