16 OCTOBER 1936, Page 20

[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] - Snt,—Dr. Ernest Barker

limits unduly the Meaning of " faith " when he says "the whole philosophy of Cunrunimism is opposed to faith," and defines faith as "belief in the Invisible."

Communists have faith in human nature, faith that Right will triumph over Might (though they do not leave Right unarmed), faith in the emergence of justice and comradeship from the welter of struggling and selfish cut-throat com- petitors, faith that equality of chances in life will give better results than the harsh and undeserved social distinctions of our present system.

I submit that faith of this kind is finer, more creative, more humane than the faith which the schoolboy so pungently defined as "belief in what you know to be untrue."—Yours