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Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset.
December 25, 1910.
Dear Mr. Smedley,
— Thanks for your long and interesting letter.... Man is, and has been, horribly cruel, and it is indeed difficult to explain why. Yet that there is an explanation, and that it does lead to good in the end, I believe. Praying is evidently useless, and should be, as it is almost always selfish — for our benefit, or our families, or our nation. —
Yours very truly, | Alfred R. Wallace.
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