WCP3990

Transcription (WCP3990.3933)

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A. Russell[sic] Wallace Ap 5 19021

to Mr Bennett

Broadstone, Wimborne2

Excuse P[ost].Card as I am very busy. I am glad to see you have written an Ightham and hope it will sell fairly well. I am not interested in the new theology or in any theology. I passed all that long ago. inasmuch as it presupposes a knowledge of God it is all vanity and vexation of the spirit. I agree with H.S. that the first cause is necessarily unknowable, even unthinkable.

Yours | A.R. Wallace

1
Wallace didn’t move into Old Orchard in Dorset until mid-November 1902.
2
Letter has been copied by Benjamin Harrison into one of his personal notebooks which is now volume 25 in the Benjamin Harrison archive held by Maidstone Museum.

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Revision history

Transcribed by Catchpole, Caroline [2012-02-28] Transcription checked by Catchpole, Caroline [2013-01-15]

Please cite as “WCP3990,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3990