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Andreas Scheu.

"Burgoyne,"

Stanley Park Road,

Wallington (Surrey)

February 11. 1909

Dr Alfred R. Wallace

Dear Sir,

I thank you for yours¹ of the 7. inst. and quite agree with you regarding W. Morris' ² "News from Nowhere".³ It is a charming Fairy Tale with but little instruction for the student who looks for practical information regarding a future state of society.

For the strange thing with W. Morris was that he furnished his ideal of the future from the stores of a fancy roaming in the past. He would insist on planting the Middle Ages into the Coming Century.

His notion of the beautiful was [2] entirely medival and he could not imagine a society served to a great extent with the assistance of mechanical contrivances.

I will certainly study Bellamy⁴ now that your extract from his "Equality"⁵ has whetted my desire to know the whole of it.

I am sorry to confess that I have not yet read the story of Your life told by yourself;⁶ but I have ordered the book and am looking forward to a great treat.

I have written to the Editor⁷ of the Daily News in support of your excellent letter re Air War; but it would not be the first time if my contribution met with but scant courtesy at the hands of the superior person. —

The general apathy with with [sic] this most portentious matter is regarded by the public is to be [3] explained only in one way. People evidently think — if they think at all — the danger too far distant to trouble much about it. Suddenly we shall find ourselves face to face with a hideous fait accompli.

But where are our "Humanitarians?" And where our "true women?"

I am impatiently awaiting a sign of life from them,

Remaining, Dear Sir | Most sincerely yours | And Scheú.⁸ [signature]