Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1369

Letter from Heath to Neal A. Truslow, Jr., Sigma Phi Epsilon, 3025 St. Paul Street, Baltimore MD

March 12, 1941

 

 

 

Dear Mr. Truslow:

 

     I want to thank you very much for your invitation to join you in attendance upon the exercises of the Friends next Saturday and, especially, for the oppor­tunity of being with you and some of your intelligent fraternity companions for a “stag” session in the evening. If my arrangements for being in New York had not been so far advanced, I should certainly have postponed them. I expect to be back from New York not later than the 27th, and shall be most happy to hear from you again at that time.

     Am certainly sorry to have missed the opportunity of visiting the Civilian Public Service Camp in connec­tion with the American Friends’ Service Committee next Saturday afternoon. I hope to do so later and, if pos­sible, participate in some of their activities.

     I look forward to having you out here again, either alone or with friends, during the on-coming attractive Spring weather. There will be many interesting things to talk about and to do.

     Will let you know as soon as I return from New York and will be glad to see you again.

     Thinking it may interest you, I enclose “The Energy Concept of Population.” You may, perhaps, recognize this as a bridge to cross the abyss between the natural and the social sciences and, perhaps, also between the quantitative and qualitative in life, between science and philosophy or religion. It has been referred to by Dr. Crane Brinton, Harvard, as a method of social analysis the “most promising” he has seen.

     This method of analysis in terms of energy, activity or function has been applied to the institution of property in land in the accompanying pamphlet. In this explanation of property in land, the energy concept is not explicitly referred to, but I think your incisive mind will observe how it has been employed.

                   Very sincerely yours,

 

SH:ML                   Spencer Heath