19 DECEMBER 1941, Page 12

MAGNA CARTA OF WISDOM

SIR,—One would be sorry to spoil Mr. Cave's ingenious mnemonic, but surely, if the method of the New Testament be any guide, Religion (and particularly Doctrine, which is its intellectual formulation) must be the basis of Ethics, and not vice-versa? Secondly, would not " Social Sciences " be a less tendentious label than " domestic knowledge " for " geography, history, politics and economics " ?—Yours faithfully, CHARLES SMYTH. Corpus Christi College, Cambridge.