STATEMENTS BY PROFESSOR
Sir,—lt is difficult to decide which is the more extraordinary—the statement attributed in your columns to Prolessor Anderson, or the action of the Legislative Assembly in passing its unanimous vote of censure. The latter seems to me to be ultra vires as well as to make the Assembly appear rather ridiculous in the eyes of the public; while the former is surely a wild and shallow statement, unworthy of a responsible teacher of philosophy. Of course, the professor may have drawn attention in his paper to other things that “promote the extension of credulity”; I trust he is aware that not even the philosopher is always exempt from submissions of various kinds, for example, submission to the tyranny of intellect or to the voice of conscience. Anyway, the quotation and particularly the language employed suggest strongly that the professor is the (possibly unconscious) victim of some emotional complex.—Yours, etc., REASON. May 6, 1943.
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Press, Volume LXXIX, Issue 23941, 7 May 1943, Page 6
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