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#1028 Hyde St.
San Francisco

Hon Leland Stanford
Dear Sir

I am here for the third time in thirty years, and here I have a great treasure - four daughters. That I have a prospective interest in the grand scheme of Education that you are laboring to inaugurate you must allow. I disclaim any ulterior motive of [recompense?] or even recognition. I suggest that you establish a chair of Positive Philosophy "that such young men as may choose to study the "laws" of phenomena without trying to account for first [causes?] or final A "Beginning" however [necessary?] as a condition of thought or a basis of reasoning is nevertheless inconceivable. The hypothesis that the matter now [condensed?] into the Solar System once formed a rotating spheroid of extreme [tenuity?] is now the accepted cosmogony of our greatest thinkers. The concentration of diffused matter, cooling heat [which?] gravitating into its present dense form. Our now green Earth has existed for myriads of years at a white heat [similar wise?] as the sun now is who is undergoing the process through