Spencer Heath Archive

Item 2524

Letter to Heath from F.A. Harper, The Foundation for Economic Education, Inc.,

February 19, 1957

 

Dear Spencer:

It was good to bask in the inspiration of further discussions with you. Thanks again.

 The article about Billy Graham is enclosed. It rather seems to me that the author stints on evidence a little too much to make it convincing for any Graham devotee. If ever you get more facts on the matter, I would appreciate having them.

The Bergson quote I mentioned while we were waiting at the station is as follows:

“I believe that the time given to refutation in philosophy is usually time lost. Of the many attacks directed by many thinkers against each other, what now remains? Nothing, or assuredly very little. That which counts and endures is the modicum of positive truth which each con­tributes. The true statement is, of itself, able to displace the erroneous idea, and becomes, without our having taken the trouble of refuting anyone, the best of refutations.”

— Henri Bergson

(The Scientific Monthly, Sept. 1956, p. 129)

 And the two books by the biochemist Roger Williams, which I

commended, are:

 

Free and Unequal, University of Texas Press, 1953

Biochemical Individuality, New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1956

 The best,

Sincerely,

 

(signed) Baldy