I do not believe in your theory of land nationalisation one bit!  But I like to see all that such a man as you has to say on his side.

In return I send you my view of the matter, which is just as likely to convert you as your book is to convert me.

I love a man with a theory, for I learn most from such a man, and when I have thought a thing out in my own mind and forgotten the arguments while I have arrived at a firm conviction as to the conclusion, it is refreshing to be reminded of points and facts that have slipped away from me!

It was a great pleasure and privilege to make your acquaintance the other day, and I hope we may meet again some day.—­Very truly yours,

AUGUSTUS JESSOPP.

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REV.  H. PRICE HUGHES TO A.R.  WALLACE

8 Taviton Street, Gordon Square, W.C.  September 14, 1898.

Dear Dr. Wallace,—­I am always very glad when I hear from you.  So far as your intensely interesting volume has compelled some very prejudiced people to read your attack on modern delusions, it is a great gain, especially to themselves.  I have read your tract on “Justice, not Charity,” with great pleasure and approval.  The moment Mr. Benjamin Kidd invented the striking term of “equality of opportunity” I adopted it, and have often preached it in the pulpit and on the platform, just as you preach it in the tract before me.  I fully agree that justice, not charity, is the fundamental principle of social reform.  There is something very contemptible in the spiteful way in which many newspapers and magistrates are trying to aggravate the difficulties of conscientious men who avail themselves of the conscience clause in the new Vaccination Act.  There is very much to be done yet before social justice is realised, but the astonishing manifesto of the Czar of Russia, which I have no doubt is a perfectly sincere one, is a revelation of the extent to which social truth is leavening European society.  Since I last wrote to you I have been elected President of the Wesleyan Methodist Conference, which will give me a great deal of special work and special opportunities also, I am thankful to say, of propagating Social Christianity, which in fact, and to a great extent in form, is what you yourself are doing.—­Yours very sincerely,

H. PRICE HUGHES.

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TO ALFRED RUSSELL

Parkstone, Dorset.  May 11, 1900.

Dear Sir,—­I am not a vegetarian, but I believe in it as certain to be adopted in the future, and as essential to a higher social and moral state of society.  My reasons are: 

(1) That far less land is needed to supply vegetable than to supply animal food.

(2) That the business of a butcher is, and would be, repulsive to all refined natures.