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Old Orchard,

Broadstone,

Dorset.

June 8th 1913

Dear Mr. Marchant

I enclosed a letter about a German translation of my "Moral Progress". It is impossible for me to do what the writer asks.

Has there been no notice of the book in "The Times" yet [?] I am anxious to see it. I am so uncomfortable all over that I can do no serious writing.

Yours very truly

Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

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P.S. I never spoke to Darwin about religious matters. But I had comparatively few talks with him. But he appeared to me to be a congenital agnostic,— yet in a very high degree moral, benevolent, & generally good. —

I myself am naturally also agnostic. I was converted solely by the facts of modern spiritualism, and during the past 50 years of my life have been growing more and more to accept the ideas of universal spirit — or deity — [4] as pervading and being the source of all "nature" from the ion or atom to the material universe as a whole — from the minutest and simplest forms of life — to man — from the most rudimentary consciousness to the spirit of man and the universe of spirits in infinite gradation up & up to the "all-mighty" spirit.

A.R.W.