WCP2610

Letter (WCP2610.2500)

[1]

ST. VALERY

FINCHLEY ROAD

HAMPSTEAD

N. W.

Oct. 28. 1895

My dear Sir

I am too grateful for any adverse criticism to be inclined to lambast it. But I think you are hardly fair to me when you say [2] that my system is not scientific. I claim at least this, that I build up my belief on facts & nothing but facts, the facts of the constitution of our own common human nature & the faculties which are never in [3] dispute.

It wd be foolish for me to follow you into the region of spiritualism, but I will closely read Mr. George Redway's1 work when it comes out. Perhaps you will be so very kind as to let me know the exact title of it, when settled. [4] I don't think trust in God comes by argument. But it is a step towards it to lessen intellectual & moral difficulties.

Very gratefully yrs | Charles Voysey2 [signature]

Redway, George William (1859-1934). London publisher of Psychic literature.
Voysey, Charles (1828-1912). Former priest of the Church of England who was condemned by the Privy Council for heterodoxy and went on to found a theist church. Father of Charles Francis Annesley.

Please cite as “WCP2610,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP2610