MR BRIGHT'S LECTURES.

Evening Star, Issue 4078, 22 March 1876, Page 4

MR BRIGHT'S LECTURES.

rWb do hot hold pwselveß resiwpMUh for the opiniohs expressed by 'our correspbhdents.]

To tKe Editor, Sib, — While an admirer oithe philanthropic spirit :h£ Vour last evening’s correspondent,' tf H« O', prompted him to sug{tet the* My Bright..should ,be retained.m ) (media, Imuat, nevertheless, confess that-1 diffetf lttfe Jliqtaa.tq the desirability, of such a Step. I think the fact of so many having sttepdhd/Ml n^. proof that they would do so if continued. . I rather think that the majority of those large audiences were prompted to|attend merely out of curiosity to .hear : gie ~lecturer, ai\d hqt from ..any desire religioos knowledge might■ be Increased; thereby. * I .do net doubt that there ore some of superior enlightenment, whoj hieing thoroughly diswomd gladly! embrace the opportunity of hearing whq they mustcpiuesi is superior even to wtont they can look up, and froni whomrthey can harn; but their number is not large enough to warrant such a step as that suggested by * • H. Q. H;” I would recommend him and hi?, [friends to take advantage of" the .opportunity afforded them of slaking their thirst for knowledge in the opening of the Athenaeum on Sundays. _ I suppose,, hpweyer, tlr!jt -they, are : now getting tired of that, or possibly have exhausted the supplies of that institution, and must now seek for some other field inrwhich to prosecute their enquiries after truth. ' 1 trust, however, that the committee will not sea their way to act upon your cocrt sponfient ’s suggestion, and that he and his “ thousands ” may be induced to paTonjse fo -a litt e longer those “existing institutions’-of which they have such a poor opinion. Maybe, ere another popular ' lecturer appears, in pur midst, they may have seen tit to change their opinions iegardiog them, and not be so ready to be led away.by his eloquence.—l am, &c., L. B. T. Eufiedin, March 22.