ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Freethought Review, Volume I, Issue 2, 1 November 1883, Page 9

ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A.C.— ln our next. J.G.— lt is within the scope of the Review to discuss Politics from the scientific aspect. T.D. —We have not yet attained the proud distinction of being able to pay for contributions. M.M. —We are reluctantly compelled to hold over till next month your interesting paper on Masonry. But the subject will keep. Sigma.— lt .is “an open secret” that the author of Natural Religion is Professor Seely, who fills the chair of Modern History in the University of Cambridge. Matai. — lt may be an hallucination, but we have a strong impression that ridicule carried beyond very narrow limits injures the cause. T.S.—The Maori supernatural power Te Atua was an evil divinity before the advent of the missionaries, who finding him available transformed him into Jehovah, retaining, however, the native name. In other words, the Maoris had a Devil, but no God. Yerax.—Yes, we have heard that Mr. Grant is to deliver the same lecture before a congregation of the Baptist Church of Wanganui. Although Christians often claim to be Freethinkers also, we do not believe that they would allow the reply by “ Y ” to be read at a subsequent meeting of the Baptists. However, make enquiries in the proper quarter ! A correspondent writes as follows :— “I am heartily pleased to learn that Mr. Joseph Symes has been selected by Mr. Bradlaugh (according to request) to fulfil a lecturing engagement under the auspices of the Melbourne Society of Freethinkers. I have frequently heard Mr Symes, and he is well-known in England as a gentleman, a scholar, and a speaker of rare eloquence. It is to be hoped he will extend his antipodean visit to New Zealand.”