WCP3331

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"Brooklyn"

Sturry, Kent.

Apr. 20/13

Dr. Alfred Russel Wallace:

My dear Sir:

Having just read your last work — "Social Environment and Moral Progress"² — and noting what you say about "Eugenics", it has occurred to me to send you a booklet I have written on that subject.

I also take this opportunity to ask your attention to another little book of mine which I am also sending you "Life in the Word". If you would read at p. 22, my reference to your very important book "Man's Place in the Universe",³ you might possibly be tempted to read further.

I believe you are quite right in what you declare to be the condition of human society at the present day. I believe also that there is a bright prospect before the world; but my confidence is grounded, not in any (as yet non-existent) "selective process; but in the sure word of the [2] living God.

I was, for the greater part of my life, of your school of philosophy, Mr. Wallace, — an ardent pupil of Darwin,⁴ Spencer,⁵ Huxley⁶ &c. But the God of all grace opened my heart to His word, and my eyes to see His way of life and peace through faith in Jesus Christ.

I see from your writings that you have a kind heart, and a reverent spirit, and that you truly desire to see humanity delivered from its complicated miseries. Therefore, I have no hesitation in writing you in this way, and in begging you, even at the very sunset of your life to believe "the testimony of God".

Sincerely and respectfully | Philip Mauro⁷ [signature]

"And this is the testimony of God, — that God has given to us eternal life, and that life is in His Son. He who hath the Son hath life, and he who hath not the Son of God hath not life!"