on the Coining Civilization. 391 



Even under our present system, wealth is largely devoted to the 

 general good. No man can do what he will with his wealth. 



Rev. John W. Chadwick: — 



The following letter was read from Mr. Chadwick, who was 

 absent in Boston at the time of the meeting : 



Mr. Ellsworth Warxee, Brooklyn, May 24, 1889. 



Secretary Ethical Association : 

 My Bear Sir: I am very sorry that your gain in Mr. Savage and 

 his lecture is my eternal loss, as I am obliged to go to Boston and 

 preach for him. This is a miserable Castor Pollux kind of an 

 arrangement, which I trust ministers of religion will not be sub- 

 jected to when the good times predicted by Edward Henry-George- 

 Most-Pentecost Bellamy have come to pass. I should like to be 

 in Brooklyn to hear Mr. Savage and to say a few words afterward 

 expressive of my satisfaction in the Winter's work of the Ethical 

 Association, and especially of my sense of obligation to Dr. Janes, 

 to whom, I am sure I may say, without disparagement of any, we 

 are more indebted than to any other person for the inception and 

 successful conduct of the course. If the speaking and printing of 

 the lectures marked our complete accomplishment it would still 

 be considerable, but I am bound to believe that they have stimu- 

 lated many to such reading and study as must be pursued before 

 the doctrine of Evolution can be vitally appropriated. I am also 

 bound to believe that we have done nothing for science which we 

 have not also done for religion, which is the poetry of science and 

 of ethics. 



Yours very truly, John W. Chadwick. 



Letters were also read from members of the Sociological Section 

 of the Natural History Society of Birmingham, England, and 

 James Grosclaude, C. E., of Paris, France, expressing sympathy 

 with the aims and work of the Association. 



Mr. Savage replied briefly to his critics, defending the views 

 expressed in his essay. 



