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35F
Vienna IX, Berggasse 19
7 June 1908
Dear Colleague,
On this rainy Whitsunday I have read your revised paper for the Schriften zur vergl angewandten Seelenkunde, and as the first reader I shall not withhold from you my thanks and full appreciation, particularly as I do not know whether you will get these from other quarters. It is all so clear, well based and constructed, full of conviction and free from misunderstanding and misunderstandability. I liked the piece very much. You are right, it is not an essay but a treatise, but that, after all, is what you chose to make it, and perhaps the persuasiveness of the whole has only gained thereby.
I was very much struck by the fact that you found such far-reaching agreement with our views and statements among the great ethnopsy-chologists.
May I make one or two small suggestions to you? To make use of the very conclusive detail in connection with Moses's staff when he appears before Pharaoh that the transformation from the stiff wood to the flexible snake is nothing but an unconcealed (reversed) representation of