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F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
. My dear Professor Meldola, I hope to have copies of my Evolution article in a few days, and will send you a [page] 6
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F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
couple. The article wag in print last September, but, being long, was crowded out month after month, and only now got in by being cut in two. I think I have demolished discontinuous variation as having any but the most subordinate part in evolution of species. Congratulations on Presidency of the Entomological Society. A. R. WALLACE. TO PROF. POULTON Parkstone, Dorset. March 15, 1895. My dear Poulton, I have now nearly finished reading Romanes, but do not find it very convincing. There is a
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F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
on the same subject at the British Association last year. He is now preparing a volume on the 1 The Present Evolution of Man. 1896. [page] 6
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evolution. Wallace ultimately accepted the Weismannian teaching. Darwin had no opportunity during his lifetime of considering this question, which was raised later in an acute form by Weismann. TO PROF. MELDOLA Parkstone, Dorset. January 6, 1897. My dear Meldola, The passage to which you refer in the Origin (top of p. 6) shows Darwin's firm belief in the heredity of acquired variations, and also in the importance of definite variations, that is, sports though elsewhere he almost gives these up in
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least twenty times less than that of denudation. In order to equal the area of denudation, it would require that 1 Presidential Address in Section D of British Association, 1896, reprinted in Essays on Evolution, p 1 2 To the British Association at Edinburgh, 1892. [page] 7
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developed once, it probably could and would be developed many times in different places, as month after month, and year after year went by; and that, from the very first, it probably took many different forms and characters, in the same way as crystals take different forms and shapes, even when composed of the same substance. From these many developments of life would descend as many separate lines of evolution, one ending in the humming-bird, another in the hippopotamus, a third in the kangaroo
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forms of the germs of life. But there is no such difference, the primitive germ-cells of man, fish or oyster being almost indistinguishable, formed of identical matter and going through identical primitive changes. As to the humming-bird and hippopotamus, there is no doubt whatever of a common origin if evolution is accepted at all; since both are vertebrates a very high type of organism whose ancestral forms can be traced back to a simple type much earlier than the common origin of mammals
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. Yours very truly, ALFRED R. WALLACE. 1 Of the Introduction to Essays on Evolution. 2 Vol. lxxvii., p. 54, a note On the Interpretation of Mendelian Phenomena. [page] 8
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able to find no approach to it. Yet I am at once howled at, or sneered at, for pointing out the facts that such problems exist, that they are not in any way touched by Evolution, but are far before it, and the forces, laws and agencies involved are those of existences possessed of powers, mental and physical, far beyond those mere mechanical, physical, or chemical forces we see at work in nature. Yours very truly, ALFRED R. WALLACE. SIR W. T. THISELTON-DYER TO A. R. WALLACE The Ferns, Witcombe
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the few simple elements available in air, earth and water. I think you may take it from me that this does not admit of dispute. At any rate we are in agreement as to Natural Selection being capable of explaining evolution from am ba to man. It is generally admitted that that is a mechanical or scientific explanation. That is to say, it invokes nothing but intelligible actions and causes. De Vries, however, asserts that the Darwinian theory is not scientific at all, and that is of course a
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with anyone who seeks an answer from some other non-scientific source. But I keep scientific explanations and spiritual craving wholly distinct. The whole point of evolution, as formulated by Lyell and Darwin, is to explain phenomena by known causes. Now, directive power is not a known cause. Determinism compels me to believe that every event is inevitable. If we admit a directive power, the order of nature becomes capricious and unintelligible. Excuse my saying all this. But that is the dilemma
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internal development force seem to me of no real value as an explanation of Nature. I claim to have shown the necessity of an ever-present Mind as the primal cause both of all physical and biological evolution. This Mind works by and through the primal forces of nature by means of Natural Selection in the world of Life; and I do not think I could read a book which rejects this method in favour of a vague law of sympathy. He might as well reject gravitation, electrical repulsion, etc. etc., as
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F1592.2    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 2.   Text   Image   PDF
the higher types of terrestrial life, and that most of these must have been certainly dependent on a very delicate balance of the forces concerned in the evolution of our planet. Our position in the solar system appeared to him to be peculiar and unique because, he thought, we may be almost sure that these conditions do not coexist on any other planet, and that we have no good reason to believe that other planets could have maintained over a period of millions of years the complex and equable
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the Evolution of the Stellar Systems, in two large volumes. His theory of capture of suns, planets, and satellites [page] 18
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materialisation of, and conversation with, the spirits of those who had been known in the body, until the conviction of life after death, as the inevitable crowning conclusion to the long process of evolution, was reached in the remarkable chapter with which he concludes The World of Lite n impressive prose poem. Like that of many other children, Wallace's early childhood was spent in an orthodox religious atmosphere, which, whilst awakening within him vague emotions of religious [page] 18
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of his convictions, advancing steadily towards the end which he ultimately reached, had become so thoroughly woven into his fabric of thought that it appears under many phases in his writings, and occupies a considerable part of his correspondence, of which we have only room for some specimens. The first definite statement of his belief in this something other than material in the evolution of Man appeared in his essay on The Development of Human Races under the Law of Natural Selection (1864
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. A lecture delivered by Prof. Barrett before the Quest Society in London, entitled Creative Thought, was published by request, and as it discussed the subject of evolution and the impossibility of explaining the phenomena of life without a supreme Directing and Formative Force behind all the manifestations of life, he was anxious to have Wallace's criticisms. At that time he had not read Wallace's recently published work on a similar subject, and he was greatly surprised to find how closely his
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him to other explanations of the higher faculties of man and the origin of life and consciousness than were acceptable to the materialistic followers of Haeckel, B chner and Huxley. And who dares dogmatically to assert in the name of science and in the second decade of the twentieth century, when the deeper meanings of evolution are being revealed, and the philosophy of Bergson is spoken about on the housetops, that he was wrong? In these views may he not become the peer of Darwin? At first
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. 178 1871 Dr. Bastian's Work on the Origin of Life IV. 181 1871 H. Howorth's Views on Darwinism IV. 221 1871 H. Howorth's Views on Darwinism IV. 222 1871 Recent Neologisms IV. 282 1871 Canon Kingsley's At Last V. 350 1872 The Origin of Insects V. 363 1872 Ethnology and Spiritualism VI. 237 1872 The Last Attack on Darwinism (Reviews) VI. 284, 299 1872 Bastian's Beginnings of Life VI. 328 1872 Ocean Circulation VI. 407 1872 Speech on Diversity of Evolution (British Association) VI. 469 1872
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F1592.1    Book:     Marchant, James ed. 1916. Alfred Russel Wallace letters and reminiscences. London: Cassell. Volume 1.   Text   Image   PDF
studies without any assistance up to the time of his meeting Bates at Leicester. 1 My early letters to Bates suffice to show that the great problem of the origin of species was already distinctly formulated in my mind; that I was not satisfied with the more or less vague solutions at that time offered; that I believed the conception of evolution through natural law so clearly formulated in the 'Vestiges' to be, so far as it went, a true one; and that I firmly believed that a full and careful study
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