THE AGE OF CREDULIT.

Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 20168, 21 February 1931, Page 19

THE AGE OF CREDULIT.

TO THE EDITOR OF THE PBESS. " Sir,—lii your issue of February 17th Mr R. W. Pearte attys thdt theUiadei-n scientific conception of the universe is that the laws of Nature are fixed, and hare flo master; and the greatest idea of all the centuries only began 300 yeard ago: If there is no master, we can only conclude non-intelllgetit ihattei: mfede and fixed its own ilawßi ' I'hen 150 yettrs later science and reason prevailed Where supers titition had roigned supreme. Many years ago I read a book writton centuries ago, wherein a noted scientist at his day proyed to his own satisfaction that thfe World Was flkt, and doiifatldsti to him it Was a fixed law. Ana so < what was looked-upon as a provedscientific faet is now no lotige# rbcog : xiifttd aft such. How those so-called fixed l&tVd ate. understood and interpreted to-day is shown in a letter by Mr Pearse to The Press on states that th&.Hfcieniiflfehian, the doctor, often errs, for it is, he says, a comthon occurrence for pepole given up by doctors to rbfcdv&r. Whfetfc is the understanding of or .evidence of a fixed law disclosed here? He further states in His letter of February 17th that Britain Has now four times more of population than she had, 150 yeara ago, ,and this Annual death-rate is less. And Why should not the death-rate be, less for th& last 50 large nttfn&erb of suflfei'Si's 1 frofii ■ ■ so-Called, ' indurable, diseases have been restored. to heaitir throtigh tha uttderstandifig of Christian Sdioflce. ■ Mr Pearse would like to jkndW , thd dieaning of the fdllowing ' statement made in the Choral Sail: '{There iafe millions bf • peojflo thrbdgH thb WoHd who believe ittithß' teality of Unemployment and povorty. , £here are mik lliona 1 claiming to-, be sick,<• Yet to i say that one is Bick or unemployed -As to deny ' the all-emlii'aciiife &bodn'ess of God." It p-.ould, bo njujeasonabla. to tlnswer all the questions in a letter of this ,sorts it Would mean the<whole-e»» planation of Ghristian Science! I iVauld like >t&. diplkiii' nay'. cd'ncbjStibn of <the unrealitydf un&iaployhiehi; asi)l understand lit a difetionafy-before ifc6 tHe tford is said to m£an .that whitili mdjr e*i6fc of of "Whifih ha'i a fult ! ihd'aßsdlute being of itself J* and is not' Considered ft* >4 of iliiytflihg else. I would like to itake, OUP own «ountiy rind Its unemployment as' -an- example' 6f its reality or Other wise, - 2 The. allrembrttdlng grafted*, ,of. Odd haft provided' ua with- 'lfivishrieiS With All that mortal, inan requires in" fobd and clothings and eVfcry necessity for civilised man to maks himself comfortable. has a variation 6f climate to Jive in, unrivalled tcCiiib beauty of oveifr. dfcfcbription, fertile valleys and t&wbriilg nnotihtains, find dt sftfefet Watgt—iddal conditions to lite Mid epjoy the abundance provided. There is enough, ftlld to fepare, ndfc in frdfall 'lot* btit in Shiploads, not jntfdufcefl bf hatd. cbtitinuous labour —but by. & comparatively small number, knd the« 6 adt cdmpellfcd" to Work full thlifci • Their sUtWe ill prbdhdtion ia rtiUdo e&fy fay flieans of many labour-saving inventions. Thatj froth the ..point of ItfOW Of the &li-6ihbrittSlnfc goodness, of God, is the,jitißiUbn in olir fcountry to-'day. The other picture} thb unreality Of unemploynttiiit, With itls attehdaMt poverty ana is not the result of the all'6mt>ra<siag goodness 6f Gdd, but the result of mafa-iitttdr laws, pf(3Ving agiin iHaa'S 6H6my to i&e mart. —Yours ,• etc,, At H. "WSEBIiER. FebrjiarJr 20th,- 1981. -

10 TBS iojiojn, Of Tax FRF.BB. Sir —Mr ,R. W. lfcttd* Of the 17th on this siifeject explains Nature., , most ,6xfjltcitif il's fbt ks it goes, but he fails' to give, nlfe a convincing redsoti "for hIU. 'eiplatifttitiri. When Mr 'PdarsS affirms "that the laws t>f Nature *ar« fixed, mV first Jjllfefy ■would be to ash .Who .fixed thenu but wlion Ho gtJt* 6fi ttt si# tlittt ,th6y have tio tadaier, I ain iiltSnded id take it, from "his letter',' #Bat NattlJrb happened hy fchaticd. As an ahswjbr to".'this stat^lnettfc,-, 1 would like to give'Mr Pedfte three questions to finsjfrer 5 propounded By Mr Antjvur Mee in the- latest issue Of '"My Magafcifle" i V 1 1. What is cmf; Mswer to oris 3 ho asks us Ijp belifeVfe' that all the 166*8 in the Universe found keys toflt them, just' % fcharice'P - ■ - 1 - * 2. Whbt id t>u? iliisWfer td flne tmo asks life to lieligve thai all ,the pferfe of a watch earae by various from '' nbHvherts'j > put ' theiUS§lte& tdgethef. fittfea perfectly, aild Mpt Greenwiph bv'chkftce? 3. What asks —us to: bejieve that sofcMbody up* a: - ttipahets, ana flung them into spattfe, gfid tHat 7 *tbt> • letters came together in the tyrentythird psalm, ,bV J chdhee? \ - tfe Mf6, %fst