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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Among his intimate friends, Herbert Spencer was always interesting from the often unexpected way in which he would apply the principles of evolution to the commonest topics of conversation, and he was always ready to take part in any social amusement. He once or twice honoured me by coming to informal meetings of friends at my little house in St. Mark's Crescent, and I also met him at Sir John Lubbock's very pleasant week-end visits, and also at Huxley's, in St. John's Wood. Once I remember

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

over a feeling of awe and inferiority when discussing any problem in evolution or allied subjects an inferiority which I did not feel either with Darwin or Sir Charles Lyell. This was due, I think, to the fact that the enormous amount of Huxley's knowledge was of a kind of which I possessed only an irreducible minimum, and of which I often felt the want. In the general anatomy and physiology of the whole animal kingdom, living and extinct, Huxley was a master, the equal perhaps the superior of the

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

the following letter to the author, which may be of interest to those naturalists who either have not seen the work or who have forgotten its essential features: Waldron Edge, Duppas Hill, Croydon, May 9, 1879. MY DEAR SIR, Please accept my thanks for the copy of 'Evolution Old and New,' and of 'Life and Habit,' which you were so good as to send me. I have just finished reading the former with mixed feelings of pleasure and regret. I am glad that a connected account of the views of Buffon, Dr

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

the southern and northern floras, I felt that my work would be mainly of a statistical nature, as interpreted by those general principles of organic evolution which were my especial study. But I also found it necessary to deal with a totally distinct branch of science recent changes of climate as dependent on changes of the earth's surface, including the causes and effects of the glacial epoch, since these were among the most powerful agents in causing the dispersal of all kinds of organisms, and

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

of Registration Statistics, proving Vaccination to be both Useless and Dangerous; but this subject will be referred to in a future chapter. Towards the close of the year I received an invitation from the Lowell Institute of Boston, U.S.A., to deliver a course of lectures in the autumn and winter of 1886. After some consideration I accepted this, and began their preparation, taking for my subject those portions of the theory of evolution with which I was most familiar. At this time I had made the

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

those parts which attempted to justify the title by propounding a new theory of evolution were either quite unsound in reasoning or wholly unintelligble. When the second application came, I told the editor that I had already agreed to write one, but could easily write another from a different point of view. This was accepted, and as the reviews were unsigned, it was not difficult to make them appear to be by distinct writers. In the first (which appeared in The Nation, February 10, 1887) I

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

land would be included within the city limits, and would sell for a high price, in which case he would leave the rest as a zoological experimental station to the public. I made some suggestions to him as to experiments in regard to instinct, heredity, and evolution, which were much needed, and he said he would take them in hand when his affairs were more settled. Sioux City had recently become a centre for agricultural produce, and had a large pork-curing establishment; and, as in many other

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

, even in this comparatively English part of Canada. Mr. Iles is a literary man as well as a hotel manager. He lent me an article of his on Mathematics and Evolution, in which he made use of the theory of permutations and combinations to illustrate Spencer's principle of multiplication of effects, applied especially to sociology an ingenious and well-written paper. He is also a student of Emerson and Darwin, and he entertained Butler, the author of Erewhon, a few years before, and gave me a copy

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

February-March), which was chiefly devoted to showing that the views of Mr. Francis Galton, and of Mr. Bateson in his book on Discontinuous Variations, are erroneous; and that such variations, which are usually termed sports, and in extreme cases monstrosities, do not indicate the method of evolution. Darwin gave special attention to this view, and finally rejected it; and I think I have shown why it is not effective in nature. It is a view which is continually cropping up as if it were a new

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

War and the Remedies, written for L'Humanit Nouvelle. I also wrote letters to the Daily Chronicle on America, Cuba, and the Philippines; and a protest against the Transvaal War in the Manchester Guardian. In the year 1900 I wrote an article for the New York Journal on Social Evolution in the Twentieth Century An Anticipation, for which I received a very complimentary letter from the editor. During the next two years I was engaged in preparing new editions of my books on Darwinism and Island Life

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

improvement from the existing governments of the great civilized nations, supported and controlled as they are by the ever-increasing power of vast military and official organizations. These organizations are a permanent menace to liberty, to national morality, and to all real progress towards a rational social evolution. It is these which have given us during the first years of this new century examples of national hypocrisy and crimes against liberty and humanity to say nothing of Christianity almost

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

argument, founded on the theory of organic evolution, which I had not time to introduce into the first edition. This argument is itself so powerful that, when compounded with the arguments founded on astronomical, physical, and physiological phenomena, it renders the improbability of there having been two independent developments of organic life culminating in man, so great as to be absolutely inconceivable. The success of this volume, and the entirely new circle of readers it brought me, caused my

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

a chapter. I can only say here that the writer has not a sufficient grasp of the elementary laws of distribution to enable him to grapple with the subject. One example of this will suffice. He says, Plants are not, as a fact, carried far by wind, Corsican, Sardinian, and Sicilian plants not occurring in Italy. No one who understands the first principles of evolution by natural selection could have made such a statement. And as to his alleged fact, I have given overwhelming evidence against it

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

, ii. 406 Cope, Professor, ii. 110; The Origin of the Fittest, by, ii. 132, 133; Primary Factors of Evolution, by, ii. 215 Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, ii. 124 Corelli, Miss Marie, A. R. Wallace introduced to, ii. 259 Corwen, North Wales, A. R. Wallace and Mr. Mitten stay at, ii. 401, 402, 403 Cosmos, by Humboldt, i. 255 Cosmos Club, Washington, reception at, ii. 119 [page] 42

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Letter-Writer, A. R. Wallace's comments on, ii. 135 Evolution Old and New, by Samuel Butler, ii. 83; A. R. Wallace's letter on, ii. 84 Ewington and Chilcot, Messrs., solicitors, i. 6 Exeter, meeting of the British Association at, ii. 46 Exeter Change for the British Lions, parody on the British Association, ii. 46 Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, The, by Darwin, ii. 1, 11 F Faerie Queene, Spenser's, read by A. R. Wallace, i. 75 Fair Heaven, The, by Samuel Butler, ii. 83 Fairchild

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

English and American Flowers, ii. 143; Human Selection, ii. 209, 267; The Method of Organic Evolution, ii. 212, 213; The Expressiveness of Speech, ii. 213; Man's Place in the Universe, ii. 232; A Defence of Modern Spiritualism, ii. 295 Fortune, Mr., plant-collector, ii. 61 Forty-five Years of Registration Statistics, proving Vaccination to be both Useless and Dangerous, pamphlet by A. R. Wallace, ii. 352 Foster, Joseph, shareholder in the New Lanark Mills, i. 98 Foxwell, Professor, his

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

. Morgan, friend of Dr. Purland, ii. 80 Kay, Dr., of Theological College in Calcutta, ii. 52 K Islands, i. 369, 370 Keeler, Mr. P. L. O. A., medium, manifestations of, ii. 342 Keller, Helen, i. 182 Kenilworth Castle, excursion to, i. 238 Kennan, Mr., address on Siberia, ii. 119 Kent's Cavern, ii. 49 Kenworthy, J. C, as socialist, ii. 272 Kerner's observations on plants, ii. 65 Keulemans, illustrations by, i. 405 Kidd, Mr. Benjamin, on equality of opportunity, i. 175; Social Evolution by, ii. 212

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

, ii. 83; Huxley quoted, ii. 103; A. R. Wallace writes for, ii. 209; reviews, Animal Life and Intelligence in, ii. 210; reviews, The Naturalist in La Plata in, ii. 210; reviews and letter on Cause of the Ice Age, ii. 215; controversy on A Speculation regarding the Senses, ii. 309; discussion on homing instinct of dogs, ii. 391, 392 Nature's Method in the Evolution of Life, reviewed by A. R. Wallace, ii. 212 Neale, Miss Florence, of Penarth, i. 167, 246 Neath, the Wallaces live at, i. 14, 15; W

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

News from Nowhere, by William Morris, ii. 267 Newton, Dr., ii. 308 Newton, Professor Alfred, Dictionary of Birds by, ii. 26, 34; A. R. Wallace the guest of, at Cambridge, ii. 45; urges A. R. Wallace to write a book on the geographical distribution of animals, ii. 94, 211 Newtown, in Montgomeryshire, birthplace of Robert Owen, i. 91, 148 New York, A. R. Wallace visits, ii. 107, 108, 113 New York Journal, The, A. R. Wallace writes on Social Evolution for, ii. 220 New Zealand, animals of, i. 421

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A237.2 Book: Wallace, A. R. 1905. My life: A record of events and opinions. London: Chapman and Hall. vol. 2. Text Image PDF

Parkstone, ii. 207; discussion on How to Model the Earth, ii. 214 Red Lions, A. R. Wallace admitted to the fraternity of, ii. 48 Rees, David, W. and A. R. Wallace lodge with, i. 179, 193, 194; A. R. Wallace revisits, i. 253 Reeve, Mr. Lovel, Travels on the Amazon and Rio Negro, published by, i. 321 Regan, Mr. C. Tate, of the British Museum, i. 286 Reichenbach, Baron, Professor Tyndall's comments on, ii. 280 Reid, Dr. G. Archdall, Present Evolution of Man, ii. 215 Reid, Mayne, Soda springs mentioned