WCP2836

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W. SONNEBERG,

2426 NORTH 18TH ST.

Phila, Pa, U.S.A.

Aug. 30.- 1904

Mr. Alfred Russel Wallace,

Dorset England -

My dear Sir! —

For political and providential reasons the theory of evolution, even if subsequently poor established can be carried too far. In a series of scientific conversations under various headings, as Heredity, Philosophy & etc., I have designed one under the heading astronomy in which it is my desire to present your conclusions essentially as expressed by you in "Man's Place in the Universe",² if you will permit me to do so.

From your your later writings I have gathered that you are by no means so assured as the origin of species as your ardent admirers assume. The whole purpose of my work is to make manifest the insecure foundation upon which the modernized Theory of Evolution rests; not so much in order to introduce a theory of my own as to [2] introduce offset the increasingly egotistic spirit of interpreting everything in nature in harmony with man's selfish aims.

Looking forward to your fortunate reply -

Sincerely yours | Walter Sonneberg³ [signature]

2426 N. 18^th st,

Phila, Pa.

U.S.A.