THE REV. C. C. BROWN’S LECTURES AT WAIMATE.

South Canterbury Times, Issue 5006, 14 May 1889, Page 2

THE REV. C. C. BROWN’S LECTURES AT WAIMATE.

[To THE EwI'OE Of THE S.O. TIMKS ] SlE—Your reporter of there lectures makes mo appear to have pretended to such a very occult piece of knowledge, that I must crave leave to make a correction. He says that I stated that John Locke was tho first to introduce tho “theory” expounded by Mf

Brown. What I did say was, that Mr Brown was not tho first to hold the opinions which ho had enunciated, and that the audience must not imagine, as some of them appeared to do, that he was declaring dogmas such as had never been heard of until the present day; for that the celebrated philosopher, John Locke, two hundred years ago, on an independent examination made by him of tho Bible teaching, bad arrived at tiie same conclusions, and expressed them in a bo’.k which he published, entitled, “ The Reasonableness of Christianity.” But to affirm that Locke was “the first” to introduce those views never entered my mind, nor was it within the purpose of my remarks, which were made in answer to some persons in the • room who insinuated that no philosophic thinker, or eminent for learning, could be found to lend countenance to such views, and 1 instanced Locke to the contrary. I am, &c., J. R. Clement, Waimate, May 11th, 1889.