WCP4326

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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 tract 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 Spencer³ & others — that all reforms must be along lines of development of the past whatever the past may have been.

That such development is usual & often beneficial I admit, but there are cases where new conditions & new ideas require us to cut ourselves adrift from the past & work on new & more rational [3] lines guided by fundamental principles of right & 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.