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F3385 Book contribution: Darwin, C. R. 1914. [Letters to John Lubbock and Lubbock's recollections of Darwin]. In Horace Gordon Hutchinson, Life of Sir John Lubbock, Lord Avebury. 2 vols. London. Text PDF

of all branches of natural knowledge, had been selected to uphold the cause of orthodoxy. The Bishop endeavoured to kill the notion of evolution with ridicule and sarcasm —ridicule for Darwin and his labours, sarcasm for Huxley and his courage. It seems strange now to think that a majority of the hearers were probably on the side of the Bishop, and were totally unable, from preconceived ideas, to weigh the value of the facts laid before them on behalf of Darwin's theory, or to appreciate the

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

1895 Tan Spots over Dogs' Eyes LI. 607 1895 The Age of the Earth LII. 4 1895 Uniformitarianism in Geology LII. 386 1895 H. Dyer's Evolution of Industry LII. 415 1895 The Discovery of Natural Selection LIII. 220 1896 The Cause of an Ice Age LIII. 317 1896 The Astronomical Theory of a Glacial Period LIII. 553 1896 E. D. Cope's Primary Factors of Organic Evolution LIII. 553 1896 G. Archdall Reid's Present Evolution of Man LV. 289 1897 E. B. Poulton's Charles Darwin and the Theory of Natural

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

but I find it quite impossible for me to follow their detailed studies and arguments. It wants a mathematical mind, which I have not. But on the general relation of Mendelism to Evolution I have come to a very definite conclusion. This is, that it has no relation whatever to the evolution of species or higher groups, but is really antagonistic to such evolution! The essential basis of evolution, involving as it does the most minute and all pervading adaptation to the whole environment, is

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

of the other islands and of South America, the nearest continent. These facts suggested evolution, and without evolution appeared to be meaningless. Evolution and its motive cause were the problems which haunted him for the next twenty years. The first step towards a possible solution was the opening of a notebook for facts in relation to the origin of species in 1837, two years before the publication of his Journal. From the very commencement of his literary and scientific work, a rule

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F1592.1 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1. Text Image PDF

Evolution. In 1852 his views on organic evolution had become so definite that he gave public expression to them in that well-known and powerful essay on 'The Development Hypothesis.' . . . In the Principles of Psychology,' the first edition of which was published in 1855, the evolutionary principle was dominant. By 1858 the year of the announcement of Natural Selection by Darwin and Wallace he had conceived the great general scheme and had sketched out the first draft of the prospectus of the

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

pleasure and will forward to Birch next mail. You have, I think, produced a splendid and unanswerable set of facts proving the non-heredity of acquired characters. I was particularly pleased with the portion on instincts, in which the argument is especially clear and strong. I am afraid, however, the whole subject is above and beyond the average entomologist or insect collector, but it will be of great value to all students of evolution. It is curious how few even of the more acute minds take the

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

to get while on earth. It is a book to read and think over, and read again. It is a masterpiece. Yours very truly, ALFRED R. WALLACE. TO PROF. POULTON Broadstone, Wimborne. July 27, 1907. My dear Poulton, Thanks for your very interesting letter. I am glad to hear you have a new book on Evolution 1 nearly ready and that in it you will do something to expose the fallacies of the Mutationists and Mendelians, who pose before the world as having got all wisdom, before which we poor Darwinians must

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

rank. Wallace lived to see the theory of evolution applied to the life history of the earth and the starry firmament, to the development of nations and races, to the progress of mind, morals and religion, even to the origin of consciousness and life a conception which has completely revolutionised man's attitude towards himself and the world and God. Evolution became intelligible in the light of that idea which came to him in his hut at Ternate and changed the face of the universe. Surely it was

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

Address to, 126 Eocene Period, i. 308, 312 Epping Forest, superintendence of, Wallace and, i. 302 4, 306 Erotylid , i. 65 Erskine of Linlathen on evolution, ii. 228 Essays on Evolution, Poulton's, ii. 61 (note), 79 (note), 84, 85 upon Heredity, Weismann's, ii. 45, 51, 52 Eugenics, ii. 160, 246; term disliked by Wallace, 150, 246; and segregation of unfit, letter from Wallace on, 160 Evans, Miss, ii. 226 Evil, origin of, ii. 149 Evolution, theory of, Lamarck and, i. 1, 109; Lyell and, 76, 142

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Evolution Nov. 1900 N. Y. Journ. Social Evolution in the Twentieth Century: An Anticipation 1900 Ralahine and its Teachings * True Individualism the Essential Preliminary of a Real Social Advance * 1901 Morning Leader An Appreciation of the Past Century Jan. 17 1903 Black and White Relations with Darwin March 1903 Fortnightly Rev. Man's Place in the Universe Sept. 1903 Fortnightly Rev. Man's Place in the Universe. Reply to Critics Oct. 1903 Academy The Wonderful Century. Reply to Dr. Saleeby Nov. 12

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Russel, letters to Dr. Archdall Reid: on Present Evolution of Man, ii. 67 8; on instinctive knowledge, 68; on Ancient Britain and Invasions of C sar, 86; on Mendelism and Evolution, 92 3 letter to Mr. Clement Reid, on discovery of Miocene or Pliocene Man in India, ii. 62 letter to Mr. H. N. Ridley, on De Rougemont, ii. 76 letter to Mr. Alfred Russel, on vegetarianism, ii. 158 letters to Mr. G. Silk: on Alexandrian donkey-drivers, i. 45; on forthcoming visit to Sarawak, 52; on marriage, 87 Wallace

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in the general scheme of Evolution which grew as slowly but surely in his mind and as independently as did that of the origin of species in the minds of Darwin and Wallace. Huxley recalls: Within the ranks of biologists, at that time, I met with nobody except Dr. Grant, of University College, who had a word to say for Evolution and his advocacy was not calculated to advance the cause. Outside these ranks, the only person known to [page] 12

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. . . that we hoped he would throw some light on that great problem of problems. . . . He was very pleasant, spoke appreciatively of what we had both done for the practical exposition of evolution, and hoped we would continue to work at the subject. But when we touched upon the great problem, and whether he had arrived at even one of the first steps towards its solution, our hopes were dashed at once. That, he said, was too fundamental a problem to even think of solving at present. We did not yet

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F1592.2 Book: Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2. Text Image PDF

. POULTON Parkstone, Dorset. February 19, 1895. My dear Poulton, I have read your paper on Theories of Evolution 1 with great pleasure. It is very clear and very forcible, and I should think must have opened the eyes of some of your hearers. Your cases against Lamarckism were very strong, and I think quite conclusive. There is one, however, which seems to me weak that about the claws of lobsters and the tails of lizards moving and acting when detached from the body. It may be argued, fairly, that

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will excuse the omission to send it sooner. Now for a more interesting subject. I was extremely pleased and even greatly surprised, in reading your letters to Bates, to find that at that early period (1862) you were already strongly convinced of three facts which are absolutely essential to a comprehension of the method of organic evolution, but which many writers, even now, almost wholly ignore. They are (1) the universality and large amount of normal variability, (2) the extreme rigour of

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mind and organising power. Hardly one of my critics (I think absolutely not one) has noticed the distinction I have tried and intended to draw between Evolution on the one hand, and the fundamental powers and properties of Life growth, assimilation, reproduction, heredity, etc. on the other. In Evolution I recognise the action of Natural Selection as universal and capable of explaining all the facts of the continuous development of species from species, from am ba to man. But this, as Darwin

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doing so verily to bring immortality to light. The immediate exciting cause of this discovery of the inadequacy of evolution from the material side alone to account for the world of life may seem to many to have been trivial and unworthy of the serious attention of a great scientist. How, it might be asked, could the crude and doubtful phenomena of Spiritualism afford reasonably adequate grounds for challenging its supremacy and for setting a limit to its range? But spiritualism phenomena were only

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called Darwin and Wallace, which was to have been a comparative study of their literary and scientific writings, with an estimate of the present position of the theory of Natural Selection as an adequate explanation of the process of organic evolution. Wallace had promised to give as much assistance as possible in selecting the material without which the task on such a scale would obviously have been impossible. Alas! soon after the agreement with the publishers was signed and in the very

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Buckle, Rev. G., article by, on Lyell's Principles, i. 232 Buckley, Miss (Mrs. Fisher), i. 260, 264, 313, 316, 319, ii. 40, 89, 90; reviews Descent of Man, i. 264 Budd, Dr. Richard, ii. 58 Buffon and Evolution, i. 1 Burn, Wallace's collection of birds from, ii. 3 Bustards, i. 146 Butler, Samuel, Life and Habit, ii. 102 Butterflies, Wallace's study of, i. 24; of South America, 30; of Malay Archipelago, 41 2; protective adaptation of, 140; variation and distribution of, 149; mimetic, 167, 168

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, ii. 145 et seq. Power of Movement in Plants, Darwin's, i. 311, ii. 2 Prain, Sir D., and Wallace memorial in Westminster Abbey, ii. 253 Prehistoric Times, Lubbock's, i. 164, 165 6 Present Evolution of Man, The, Archdall Reid's, ii. 67, 73 Price, Prof. B., formally offers D.C.L. degree to Wallace, ii. 217 Prichard's Physical History of Man, i. 91, 116, ii. 73 Primula, Darwin's paper on, i. 218 Principles of Geology, Lyell's, i. 135, ii. 5 Principles of Psychology, Spencer's, i. 123 of Sociology