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Oct[ober]. 28. 1895

Dear Dr Wallace

I have deferred answering your kind letter and thanking you for the two little brochures till I should have read and thought them over. The point you raise in your letter is most interesting and opens quite a new field of thought as to the possible modus operandi. Perhaps some light is thrown on the matter by the experiment recorded p.104 on Transcendental Physics, if reliance can be placed on the account. The heating of the shell is the point which if substanti- [2] ated would seem to imply some molecular action. If also the apparent burning of the bladder band when the experiment was tried p113 same book. This would tend to show that at least organic matter cannot be interpenetrated without destroying the organic continuity. Which goes to show that man? In one state can but do more effectively and rapidly that which he can do by mechanical means in the state we now call normal.

Your account of mouth gesture is extremely interesting. Does not this [3] also imply a correspondence between the minor[?] cause of things and the mind which formulates the symbols whereby these things are expressed?.I hope the suggestions you make will be taken up by competent linguists and extended to the roots of many tongues.

There may perhaps this winter be some chance of the unemployed problem being dealt with. If the nation provides the means for starting such self-sufficing colonies and that they are imminently feasible is proved by the closed economic circles of many [4]villages in India, where crime is almost unknown, the nations would have the right to impose several formalities for ^a vagrancy of those who might desert the colony in favour of begging. Within the colony the ordinary law and a sympathetic administration would no doubt suffice.

I shall look out for your article on a permanent measure of value: this is the focal desideratum of modern commercial life.

Again thanking you for your kind letter | I remain | Yours sincerely | Stanley De Brath [signature]²