MR McGILLICK ON RUSSIA

Timaru Herald, Volume CXLVII, Issue 21508, 22 November 1939, Page 12

MR McGILLICK ON RUSSIA

Sir, —I like the amusing arrogance of your correspondent “Student.” whose pen-name has not been wisely chosen. A true student does not take a one-eyed view as was taken by your correspondent in his airy dismissal of the Christian philosophy. Judging from the jargon of his letter one feels that his mind is like a turkey’s crop: full of half-digested matter. Before "Student" attempts to persuade people to accept the materialistic concepts of Communism I think he should learn something of the Christian philosophy he rejects. A course of Thomas Aquinas by no means an intellectual slug, would be quite as illuminating to him as dabblings in Marx. Then, as an interim statement, on the development of the earthly heaven in the Soviet Union one could refer him to “Assignment in Utopia’’ by Eugene Lyons. In conclusion I would say that I have not yet had anything to do with a parlour Communist who was not excruciatingly verbose. Perhaps “Student” will be an exception to the melancholy rule. All I want from him is an assurance that he will acquaint himself with the classical expositions of the Christian philosophy before he condemns it. If he won’t do that he is no student, but merely a windy, biassed and misleading propagandist. —I am, etc., ANTI-BLAH. Timaru, November 21.