Spencer Heath Archive

Item 1403

Carbon of a letter to Dr. Frank Aydelotte, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey

March 3, 1942

 

 

Dear Dr. Aydelotte:

Remembering your kind hospitality and engaging con­versation of some months ago, on which occasion I made reference to having formulated an “Energy Concept of Population,” I had the pleasure last Wednesday, February the 25th, of leaving with your secretary, Miss Eichelser, a somewhat extended outline, in which you had kindly in­dicated your interest. Since leaving the above for you I have prepared (tentatively) a topical outline which indicates in highly condensed form the general plan and arrangement and something of the manner of treatment, thinking this may be of immediate interest to you, before perusing more of the matter. I am enclosing herewith a copy of the topical outline referred to, with the request that it be attached to and made part of the matter you have already in hand.

Dr. Aydelotte, if I did not feel very sure that your ideas, aspirations for mankind, and general point of view were very similar to my own, I would by no means intrude upon your time and attention with these perhaps very imperfectly-formulated ideas and conceptions of the life and processes of mankind, and of the individual therein. I have probably a fundamentally academic mind but the course of my life has been along highly objective and practical lines. I believe that this has given me a higher degree of objectivity in my quest for the fund­amental basis of the social phenomenon than I could otherwise have employed.

I do not write to you soliciting material aid of any kind, but rather in the hope, and even in the expecta­tion, that you will participate in the esthetic, not to say spiritual, reaction that I have experienced through unfolding some of the transcendent beauty with which the order of nature and of mankind is so divinely informed.

 

SH:ct                            Very sincerely yours,

Enc.  Inspiration of Beauty

 Society and its Services

 Outline: “Energy Concept”