EVASIVE MR SEYMOUR.

Waikato Times, Volume 111, Issue 18661, 13 June 1932, Page 9

EVASIVE MR SEYMOUR.

(To the Editor. Sir,—As I expected, Mr Seymour has evaded unblushingly any attempt to deal with Professor Huxley’s claim that it is the negation of all that we call goodness, or virtue, for fanatical individualists to seek to apply cruel natural laws to organised society. There is no reasoned answer to it, but Mr Seymour does not try to evolve a reasonable answer from his tricky mind or admit that he is unable to show -any fallacy In professor Huxley’s reasoning. ' It is nine days since my letter apneared and Mr Seymour has played IITs old game when in a difficulty. He lets considerable time pass —presumably In the hope that many of your readers may have forgotten what I may have written—and then he chips in with matter that has nothing to do with the subject one -has dealt with, and interlards his letter with insolent foolery. It was Mr Seymour Who said: “Did Huxley say that Sykes" and walked away, because he knew he could not answer Huxley, and the gentleman is not given to walking away if he thinks he can even twist any. statement put to him in the form of an argument. For myself, I have oome to the conclusion that Mr Seymour, as a controversialist, is not worth serious notice.—l am, etc., JOHN SYKES. Hamilton, June 10, 1932.