Madam, - Canon B.F.B. Lougheed (June 19th) recalls tradition being described as "the dictatorship of the dead". At the risk of teaching my grandmother to suck eggs, I suggest he may be confusing the phrase with G.K. Chesterton's description of tradition as "the democracy of the dead". A very different, but perhaps equally worthy, interpretation. - Yours, etc.,
Father PAUL CLAYTON-LEA, Strand Road, Termonfeckin, Co Louth.