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Which Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace
- In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in…
- To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach…
- On the spiritual theory, man consists essentially of a spiritual nature or mind intimately associated with a spiritual body or soul, both of which are…
- What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters
- As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know…
- 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…
- To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles…
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