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Mr. Eliot’s Virginian Lectures. To the Editor of The New English Weekly
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Sir, – I have read with keen interest Mr. Pound’s kindly note upon my Virginian lectures, in your columns; and I find myself in cordial agreement with the major part of what I am able to understand of it.
I agree with paragraphs 5, 6, 7, 8, 12, and 13, though not necessarily with every inference that might be drawn from them.
I find that paragraph 4 has no meaning for me. That has sometimes been one’s experience with statements beginning with the words
Paragraph 11 puzzles me a little. Many of us would admit that there has been and is great ethical weakness within organised Christianity. I do not know whom he means by the “(often subsidised) ecclesiastical bureaucrat.”
As for the second sentence of paragraph 14,
If Mr. Pound would rewrite paragraph 9 in Basic English, avoiding phrases like “when religion was real,” and “vital phenomena,” it might possibly turn out to be a statement which I could accept.