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Alfred R. Wallace
I survey the soft brown mud between us, look anxiously for some root to set my foot on, and then cautiously advance towards him: one more step and I have him, but alas! My foot slips off the root, down I go into the bog and the treasure escapes, perhaps a species I may never obtain again.
Alfred R. Wallace
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred R. Wallace
I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong.
Alfred R. Wallace
I have studied man and nature in all its aspects, and I have sought after truth.
Alfred R. Wallace
I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.
Alfred R. Wallace
I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
Alfred R. Wallace
I am decidedly of the opinion that in very many instances we can trace such a necessary connexion, especially among birds, and often with more complete success than in the case which I have here attempted to explain.
Alfred R. Wallace
Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
Alfred R. Wallace
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Alfred R. Wallace
But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.