Parkstone, Dorset.
August 31st 1893
Dear Dr Jessopp1
Many thanks for your very handsome volume2 some parts of which I have read before, & all of which I shall read now, I am sure with both pleasure & profit. With your letter came the enclosed tract3 which, as it is well written, & treats the land question from a point of view different from mine but with the same result I venture to send you. I [2] May say that I totally dissent from the view now adopted by Spencer4 & others — that all reforms must be along lines of development of the past whatever the past may have been.
That such development is usual and often beneficial I admit, but there are cases where new conditions & new ideas require us to cut adrift from the past & work on new & more rational [3] lives guided by fundamental principles of rights & justice.
Such a case is that of the land-question, — & that I will be so solved I have not the smallest doubt.
Believe me | yours very faithfully | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]
Revd. A Jessopp D.D.
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