Sir,-You have given considerable space to the present survival after death controversy. Surely the classic work, hich attempts neither to prove nor disprove, but sets out the available evidence for the reader’s own appraisal, is The Question by Edward Clodd? It is surely incontestable that hitherto there has been no proof. If words are to mean anything, "proof" is a logical demonstration. The word logic should need no defining, although commonly misused and abused by controversialists. The controversy surely reaches absurdity when one — correspondent, "Spook," asks for proof that there is no proof, Lagic does not allow negative proof. People are free to believe what tiny. choose, but make themselves ridiculous when they use words like "proof" and "proved" in connection with what are their own beliefs and opinions.
I. R.
MAXWELL-STEWART
(Wellington).
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 26, Issue 664, 28 March 1952, Page 5
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