Quotes by Alfred Russel Wallace

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  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 anything of the origin of steamships and railways.

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  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.

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  Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.

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  I have since wandered among men of many races and many religions.

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  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.

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  If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.

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  In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.

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  Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

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  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 developed in and by means of a material organism.

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  The foregoing considerations lead us to the very important conclusion, that matter is essentially force, and nothing but force; that matter, as popularly understood, does not exist, and is, in fact, philosophically inconceivable.

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  There is, I conceive, no contradiction in believing that mind is at once the cause of matter and of the development of individualised human minds through the agency of matter.

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  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 which do not occur.

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  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 no clear conception.

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  To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.

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  Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.