WCP2489

Letter (WCP2489.2379)

[1]1

Chicago, Ill[inois].

25 W. Kinzie St.

Jan[uary] 7th [1913].1

Dr Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace

Famous Scientist

London

England

Dear Sir and Master,

Our childish U.S./ Newspapers only occasionally print things of real interest. You, one of the heroes of the dawn of Anthropology of 1858 to 1866, of the Trio Wallace-Darwin-Haeckel2, still alive! Glory! In Europe your work has pushed Pantheism far ahead, it has made Japan!

Here in the enormous flood of priest-ridden idolatrous steerage mob, the "professors" are shallow cowardly, influenceless ninnies, the masses ignorant beyond belief, far below Japan average, only interested in small personal politics, base-ball, bowling, football, prize-fighting, Romanism and idolatry. We few intellectuals — in Chi[cago]. not above 100 in 11/2 mill[ion] disappear. Hence, let our Souls co-vibrate, even if unknown in body!

[2] [p. 2] You & Darwin & Haeckel pushed the Body-problem of Man 200 years ahead, just as Copernicus'3 idea did not bear full fruit till Newton,4 200 or even Laplace,5Leverrier,6 Gauss7 400 years later.

But the studies of Haeckel (Heitzman [sic]8 also) gave one other grand discovery to me. I think I was the first to clearly announce the principle:

All the thousands of Varieties of Cells, Organs, glands, Eyes, ganglia etc. of the bodies of plants[,] animals and men are[:]

1.) Synchronized, joined hermaphrodites of the same original species, — examples[:] right & left half of body, started in precarbonic age, ascidia, lanceolus.

2.) Synchronized, utilized parasites, like phosphate corals in shape of teeth[,] bones from Devonian or Silurian age; like liver, like intestinal glands.

3.) Synchronized; utilized inhabitants, residents of other parts of body, not originally parasites, like hair glands, hair, sweat glands etc.

4.) All adaptations, synchronizations began in microscopic sizes, just as origin of all life-forces is even ultramicroscopic.

[3] [p. 3]

5.) Survival of the Fittest operated on every cell, organ, parasite down to present time.

6.) Synchronizing is especially important in regulating the embryonal history of teeth e.g. in exact accordance with all other human organs from egg to Milk teeth, to permanent teeth around 12 years of age etc; this was essentially brought about by the central nerves, their harmonizing [of] comfort or pains. (Heitzman[']s [sic] reticulum show its possibility!)9

The discovery of Radium, measurement of Electrons, Ions, Atoms allows us to follow the Units of Body and Soul much deeper. Body and Soul, both have an independent life. Both are due to rare (Radium-like) elements, whose rays or electrons are the specific forces of Body and Soul. If Iron was the chief element of our soul, magnetism would appear to us as thinking, willing, consciousness, similar with Psychium (Soul Element) Somium (Body Element). Both are combined with Albumen and each other. The Libella without stomach, liver, intestines represents the maximum of Somium with minimum of Albumen. It lives only for "Love", Propagation. The Saurians10 had a minimum of Ps[ychium]. and so with a max. of Albumen. [4] [p. 4] As for maximum of Psychium I consider man very high, but pro ratio: sparrows, certain insects higher. The Ideal might appear to Intellectuals a maximum of Ps[ychium]. with just enough So[mium]. to allow it to operate and a minimum of Albumen. See how closely this scientific logic comes to old ideas of "dematerialized bodies", "materialized souls"! To Buddhists' "perfection". (!!)

Somium is with us still dominant till old age when Psychium becomes the real leader.

My idea for cumulation growth is:

size, math Symbol
I The Pantheos of All ∫-∞+∞φ∞∞dI (each Ego!)
II Pantheos of Infinitely Small 0±∞ (∞infinity)
III Sparks of "Pantheos of A[ll]" 1±∞ Every preceding rules and build up following Units but not reverse!
IV Units of Fancies, Choices, Plans, Ideals formed by Sparks of Pantheos.11

?

V Units of Laws of Nature, Justice, Mathematics, Contrasts other sparks of P[antheos].12 ?
VI Points of material Power(mathem[atical]. Points of Energy 1illion
???

VI [sic] Electrons of all elements

(Ionectrons)

123×1012

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From here proven13

↓ ↓↓

VII Ions of Elements14

15×1010

Atoms of Psychium (Ps) 13×108 Atoms of Somnium (So) 13×108

[5] [p. 5] The atoms form molecules, combine (H2O, CO2, Albumen) but all issue ionectrons, ions (notice smell of brass!)[.] Every living body cell is vitalized by an atom or molecule of Somium, whose rays, activities are seen in form of contractility (influence of Ps[ychium] currents), assimilation, growths, reproduction, heredity; this life is almost independent of Ps[ychium]. or Brain nerves. The So[mium]. predominates in all smooth muscles, all "sympathetic" nerve organs. The Ps[ychium]. adds to the vitality of So[mium]. that of its specific vibrations (thought, logic, consciousness, sensing etc.) it predominates forms in all Brain organs even Epiblast Organs15, most parasitical glands, organs (teeth).

Every cell has an atom of Ps[ychium].; the nerves are the channels for its Ions, Ionectrons, as are copper wires for current electrons, every ganglion & molecule.

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The central Ego is a large Ps[ychium]. molecule (Soul) combined with a dominated So[mium]. molecule (Instinct) both in possession of a movable travelable Amoeba like being (albumen). In day time this sits in Corpora quadrigemina.16 At night it travels. Its dreams are mostly happening in bowels at the spot where food becomes faeces. I have 3 most remarkable proofs of this when I saw in my dream the detail of faeces which I absolutely [6] [p. 6] verified point by point next morning — 4 hours later! — by my bodily eyes: I find: warm water means normaly [sic] digested food, trains trucks, boats, mean inspissated faeces; houses mean muscles of bowels; bulls, wild animals mean button-like masses from haustra of colon;17 the mountains are folds in intestines etc. There are schools for young Egos there, special food for "me", my Ego. My living Ego in my body is an amoeba.

If I die & when, the Ps[ychium]. mol[ecule]. in this amoeba now becoming my "Soul", a gaseous molecule, will call all its atoms scattered over body together and as a free molecule float out. If it finds a "living" train of thought in a friend near or far, it travels along it just as Ions of Iron travel along magnetic lines, electrons along wireless waves, enters the friend, and begins its perigenesis,18 till in about 500 years it appears again as a complete Ego in a baby. Au revoir in 2360 A<D>[.] The Somium to my idea, stays with body and arises with the maggots etc becoming beetles and flies in course of time. A true Rebirth! Enclosed clipping may interest.19 Am one of [the] best Chemists (Court Expert) Physicists, Mathematicians living. I can explain almost all brain phenomena up to my intellect by above theories.

With deep Esteem | Dr. C. Arym [signature]

Charles Mayo evidently dated this letter "1911" in error. The year is established by its relationship to Mayo's letter sent to ARW on 4 March 1913 (WCP2516.2406) and the envelope addressed to ARW in Mayo's hand and postmarked "CHICAGO | JAN | 7 8 00PM | 1913 | ILL." (WCP2489.8318).
Haeckel, Ernst Heinrich Philipp August (1834-1919). German biologist and philosopher.
Copernicus, Nicolaus (1473-1543). Polish astronomer.
Newton, Alfred (1829-1907). British zoologist and ornithologist.
Laplace, Pierre-Simon (1749-1827). French mathematician, astronomer,
Le Verrier, Urbain Jean Joseph (1811-1877) French astronomer and mathematician.
Gauss, Johann Carl Friedrich (1777-1855). German mathematician and physicist.
Heitzmann, Carl (1836-1896) American pathologist.

Heitzmann published a series of articles in the Vienna Academy of Sciences in 1873 arguing that a cell or lump of protoplasm, previously considered structureless, possessed a pronounced reticular structure. The reticulum was postulated to be an extremely delicate network of living matter that traverses bundles of fibrous tissue connected to the oral epithelium.

(C. Heitzmann. 1887. The General Structure of the Teeth. American Journal of Dental Science. Third series. 20(12): 529-543 [p. 532-4]).

A reptile of the suborder Sauria.
A downward-pointing arrow is drawn from "IV Units of Fancies" to "Atoms of Psychium (Ps)" in the left-hand margin and a second arrow is drawn to " Atoms of Somnium (So)" in the right-hand margin.
A downward-pointing arrow is drawn from "V Units of Laws of Nature" to "Atoms of Psychium (Ps)" in the left-hand margin and a second arrow is drawn to " Atoms of Somnium (So)" in the right-hand margin.
Text appears in the far left corner of the manuscript page adjacent to "VI Electrons".
A downward-pointing arrow is drawn from "VII Ions of Elements" to "Atoms of Psychium (Ps)" in the left-hand margin and a second arrow is drawn to " Atoms of Somnium (So)" in the right-hand margin.
Epiblast (also primitive ectoderm) refers to one of two distinct celluar layers in the developing embyro of mammals. The epiblast contains the cells that makes up the embyro itself. (Carlson, B. M. 2019. Human Embryology & Developmental Biology. 6th Edition, St. Louis, Missouri: Elsevier. p.72).
Corpora quadrigemina: Part of the human mid-brain, consisting of four rounded elevations. Mitra, S. 2015. Anatomy. Kolkata: Academic Publishers. 3. Section 11 [p. 11.37].
Haustra (singular haustrum). Small pouches which give the colon its segmented appearance. (Miller, B 2003. Miller-Keane Encyclopedia and Dictionary of Medicine, Nursing, and Allied Health, Seventh Edition. Saunders).
Ernst Haeckel's theory of heredity that somatic cells are altered by the environment and by the activity of organs containing them. These modifications are passed as wave motions to sex cells, thus permitting the inheritance of acquired characters. (Gould, S. J. 1977. Ontogeny and Phylogeny. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press. p.484).
The enclosed clipping is presumed lost.

Envelope (WCP2489.8318)

Envelope addressed to "Hon. 'Lord'(?) Dr Alfred Russell [sic] Wallace, famous Pre-Darwin, Scientist, Explorer, London, England", with stamp, postmarked "CHICAGO, ILL. | JAN 7 | 8 00 PM | 1913"; readdressed to "Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset". [Envelope (WCP2489.8318)]

Please cite as “WCP2489,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2489