BODY AND MIND
SIR,—Hundreds of bishops, thousands of parsons and numerous earnest laymen like me will thank you for Professor Anthony Flew's review of Body and Mind, a book we must obviously read and grumble at, especially since we now know exactly what our grouse may legitimately be about. Perhaps Professor Flew was right not to add one thing; in another book, also published by Allen and Unwin, there is a short essay on 'Mind and Matter.' It ends, 'The relations of mind and matter have puzzled people for a long time, but if I am right, they need do so no longer.'
But some people like puzzles; I am sure neither Vesey nor Flew would want to discourage us; and perhaps the author of the book I mention wouldn't either. I hesitate to introduce his name into a dis- cussion which I had hoped to keep on a high level of seriousness; but cheerfulness notoriously tends to break into discussions of philosophy; yes, of course, Russell; in Portraits from Memory.
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