Ah, interesting--you raise an excellent point, why would Alfred Hamilton have allowed his heir to be so radical in thought? Well, if he was a spare, then he would a) have more intellectual freedom and b) likely would have gone into the clergy, which explains why religion and faith drive so many of his motivations.
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