1 A counterpart. Mother was a bit more tender but in nowise less 

 definite, as will be seen. 



When, as sophomore, the boy had made the college paper, 

 the father advised: "Keep it clean & refined & elegant for the 

 sake of W & J." To which he added: "By the way look to 

 your spelling — wheather and wasent should be whether and 

 wasn't." 



October of 1895 brought this news: 



I am sending you herewith ten dollars — money is rather hard 

 to get but this will keep you going till I can send more . . . 

 I am glad to note that you have awakened to the necessity of 

 learning how to read. Nothing is more important except to 

 learn how to hear, so that whether you listen or read you may 

 grasp what is good & hold it at your disposal. The practice of 

 reproducing in writing the substance of lectures & books is 

 very important. The term Khuda Karta means God works; & 

 Khuda J'dnta, God knows. 



The family worry about William's sustenance and his be- 

 havior was trifling, however, compared with its worry over 

 his soul. As a matter of fact the embryo naturalist was in a 

 hot spot, for the father tended the fires of Revelation on the 

 one side even as the flames of science's new religion were 

 scorching him on the other. The father had seen him study 

 Cuvier; but from that hidden journal, which was his own, he 

 had learned more dangerous doctrine. Here he had been in dia- 

 logue with Wallace, Darwin and Agassiz; with Huxley, 

 Tyndall and Lyell. Subjects like spontaneous generation and 

 special creation had been given a jolt; and the boy needed to 

 find bed for them again. The business was upsetting. It made 

 him propound some straightout questions to Doctor Bray who 

 in the new year of 1896 sent answer. Excerpts from a tightly 

 typewritten four-page essay read as follows : 



Your letter contains no surprise for me. You have heard 

 enough from my own lips to awaken in you just such thoughts 

 . . . That Jesus was born of a virgin, . . . that his body 

 arose from the dead . . . that he is of one substance with the 

 Deity himself . . . Now nothing of this do I or can I believe 

 . . . The universal principles of religion are true because in 



