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01266 There is a serene atmosphere nowades the moral intellectual world, which will be highly conducive to your general
health. The proper way to treat English scientific Dammiaw? metaphysicians? is to lend them a pair of convex lenses so that
they can see further backwards into the problems of nature, while we lead them over new ground of exploration. If by any possi
bility you cant come, send me a note immediately, so that I may substitute - unwillingly - some other scientific - I was going
to say cuss, but I wont. If Wallace has preengaged him self we can have our illegible terms. illegible kind regards to your
wife the doctors family I am very truly yours W. P. Gibbons