LOGIC.

Evening Star, Issue 3809, 10 May 1875, Page 2

LOGIC.

To the Editor. 2 Srt,—l think your correspondent “Who '■vr ita.to know ” mudt be suffering from mental J Wjqmty. I do not read the “argument’ 1 wmoh he quotes as expressing the views of the writer; quite the reverse. He, as it seems to me, is stating the arguments need by the enemies of our present educational system, m the context clearly shows. Why, sir, we Hava heard the same from pulpit and platform for years past 1 don’t pretend to understand Want to know s peculiar notions of lone • but certainly if it be admitted that religion is an essential part of education, and that the otate has no right to teach religion, it must follow that the education of the people is not the business of the State,” and this is precisely Bishop Moran and othmtu But I don t admit the first proposition: neither does the writer in the with regard to “Want to know’s” so-called parallel, it defeats itself. Certainly it b not the business of the Corporation to supply winter that is not fit to drink.—l am, Sec. rk ~ Got who Knows. Dunedin, May 10.