MAN'S RESPONSIBILITIES
Sir,-W. F. Ford sets up some straw dummies in ‘order to enjoy knocking them down; and he makes some unwarrantable assumptions. He declares that Guizot knew nothing of philosophy or theology; that I have not read Niebuhr; that I "like to think that Christianity" etc., and assumes that God has given man free will. In the biographical introduction to Guizot’s History of Civilization we read that: "Philosophy, in particular, had powerful attractions for him." He was also a Calvinist-a sect not unacquainted with theology. My reply to J. L. Jones reveals that I have read Niebuhr-and I may add that I have read other authorities. Nothing in
my first letter justifies Mr. Ford in assuming that "I like to believe etc." I merely quoted Guizot’s belief and my opinion on the assumption that Guizot’s belief was true. As for free will, it is a very big subject. Some recent . writings make one wonder whether we have more free will than the electrons which take up their allotted places (or their chosen places) to constitute the atom.
J. MALTON
MURRAY
(Oamaru).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 507, 11 March 1949, Page 5
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182MAN'S RESPONSIBILITIES New Zealand Listener, Volume 20, Issue 507, 11 March 1949, Page 5
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