My attempt to trigger class warfare by blaming the English public school system for the popularity of annihilationism seems to have worked, with a mass rising of the OBN and the OST to protest my thesis.   Indeed, Pete Sanlon (not, I believe, a public school boy)sent me a link to this article which makes a good case for the influence of Basil Atkinson, the Cambridge University Librarian, on the key figures.  Thus, we should blame the Librarian.  A dodgy sort of cove, as they say. I knew it was him all along.

I fear that he may well have influenced evangelical dress sense as well. This photo of an early CICCU President is certainly suggestive of the influence of the fashion pages of Professional Librarian Today.