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Paine, Merlin M., December 8, 1947.

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         "Your brief on "Building a Science of Opinion" suggests a very challenging possibility. It would seem to me that the editing of this book by people of different religious faiths and different political opinions might well be adopted as a project of the American Philosophical Society, along with a further exploration of how a harmonizing framework for philosophy might be established and used on a world wide basis. 
        Albert Einstein" 
  Your article states that you "cannot arouse the American people to the truths of the atomic era by logic alone."  I am sure you do not mean that we should abandon logic.  Instead we must weld logic to "that deep power of emotion which is a basic ingredient of religion."   This the document I forwarded to you seeks to do. 
  Your immediate response will be very much appreciated. 
     Sincerely yours, 

Merlin M. Paine home address 3236 - 37th Place South Seattle 44, Washington

P.S. My previous letter was addressed to you at Princeton University.  If it has been mislaid, I can rush you another copy.