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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 yours of the 7. inst. and quite agree with you regarding W. Morris' ¹ "News from Nowhere".² 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 medi[ae]val and he could not imagine a society served to a great extent with the assistance of mechanical contrivances.

I will certainly study Bellamy³ now that your extract from his ""Equality"⁴ 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; but I have ordered the book and am looking forward to a great treat.

I have written to the Editor 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 [which] this most <portentous> 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 out "Humanitarians?" And where our "true Women?"

I am impatiently awaiting a sign of life from them,

Remaining | Dear Sir | Most sincerely yours

And[reas] Scheu [signature]⁵