Our Washington correspondent sends to-day an interesting letter on the tendency of the "higher institutions of learning' in America to produce Bolshevism and agnostcism. This opinion is supported by the statistics of a trained investigator: and it is added that "the Churches are not unaware of the conditions prevailing at the colleges and universities." So far as under graduates are concerned the matter is not unduly serious. Extreme radicalism and atheism are often phases through which the ardent yon in development
pass as naturally as children through measles. But we are also told that "among professional scientists, historians, sociologists and psychologists the greater the eminence of the man, the less likely is he to be a believer." Tt is interesting to remember that this is precisely the sort of thing that W. H. Mallock satirized in "The New Paul and Virginia" and in the person of Mr. Saunders in The New Republic", quite forty years ago. In the interval science as represent. ed by its best leaders moved distinctly away from the agnosticism of Huxley and Tyndall. Now it seems to be moving back again. Another example of history trave elling in circles?
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.