WCP6957

[1]

22. Feb. 1889.

"Many thanks for so kindly having looked through my proof-sheets. I will not trouble you with the last sheets which would terrify you still more. I know well enough that my views as regards man will be criticised. [2]

I have mentioned Weismann's views, though I doubt whether his views or yours really correspond to the facts. If course, we look at it from different standpoints. I know — so I think — that there are non-human intelligences, that there is a will which has nothing to do with the bodily brain, that there must be a spiritual world. This is for me not merely a belief, but a conviction based upon facts for long observed & such a conviction must, in my opinion, modify my views as to the origin & the nature of human faculties."