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Dr. J. LEDERBERG
Genetica Department
Stanford University
STANFORD, California.

Dexgr Josh,

Many thanks for your memo. It was indeed equally grati-
fying to see you for a few days in Sweden. I hope we won't
have to wait another ten or fifteen years to be able to think
and discuss together for a few hours or days. In fact I will
be staying for a month or so at the Salk Instfétute next Februa-
rye What about paying us a visit or my paying you one at Stan-
ford ?

Thanks also for your reminders, especially the one concer~
ning the Magic Mountaine I looked it up again and found a
wonderful definition by Settenbrini of the ethics of knowledge.

I did see Medawar's speech. It is very charming and most
unconvincing. TJIaam against wishful thinking.

I thought I had pointed out in my talk that WIXth Century
positivism indeed had the character of a faith. It still was
a "belief-system", That t#annot do anymore, but I fully realize
both the difficulties, the abstractadness, and the insafficien-
cies of my proposal.

Yours ever,

Jacques MONOD.

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