Ignatius Singer an Ernst Haeckel, Calverley, 21. April 1897
39, CAPEL STREET,
I. SINGER, F. C. S.
CALVERLEY, NEAR LEEDS,
April 21 1897
To Professor
Dr. E. Haeckel
Jena
Dear Sir,
we have taken the liberty of directing our publisher, Mr. John Murray, to forward you an early copy of our work “Some Unrecognized Laws of Nature”. If you should not || deem it too impertinent, we should venture the request of a general expression of opinion a from you on the main feature of the theory advanced in the book. It is only from you, and the extremely few thinkers who, like yourself,b are content to seek solutions of the problems of nature in a monistic conception of the Universe, that we || can expect a judgement unwarped by theological bias, & hence are anxious to learn whether the views we entertain are such as to be mostly of serious attention of philosophers.
Will you allow me, at the same time, to state that the relations of both Mr. Berens & myself to yourself are those of grateful disciples to their master ‒ through your writings ‒ & your works have inc not a small degree contributed in formulating our views.
Trusting you may not have reason to think the results unworthy of your teaching, believe me,
Yours most obediently
(on behalf of Mr. Berens & self).
I. Singer.
a gestr.: by; b gestr.: he; eingef.: like yourself,; c eingef.: in