Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace AnthologyVerso, 2002 - 430 pages Alfred Russel Wallace's reputation has been based on the fact that, at the age of thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands, he stumbled independently on the theory of natural selection. Andrew Berry's anthology rescues Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace to be far more than just the co-discoverer of natural selection. Wallace was a brilliant and wide ranging scientist, a passionate social reformer and a gifted writer. The eloquence that has made his The Malay Archipelago a classic of travel writing is a prominent feature too of his extraordinary forward-thinking writing on socialism, imperialism and pacifism. Wallace's opinions on women's suffrage, on land reform, on the roles of church and aristocracy in a parliamentary democracy, on publicly funded education—to name a few of the issues he addressed—remain as fresh and as topical today as they were when they were written. |
Contents
A Biographical Sketch | 1 |
A very dull ignorant and uneducated person | 2 |
Journeys | 9 |
Satisfaction Retrospection and Work | 16 |
Gardening and rural walks | 19 |
ANTHOLOGY | 27 |
Science | 29 |
Evolution | 31 |
Uncivilised people | 169 |
Human Evolution | 175 |
Human Improvement | 212 |
Spiritualism and Metaphysics | 221 |
Conversion | 223 |
Spiritualism and Science | 235 |
A World Viewed Through the Lens of Spiritualism | 250 |
Travel | 261 |
The Sarawak Law | 32 |
The Ternate Paper | 50 |
Darwin and Natural Selection | 62 |
Evolution by Natural Selection | 69 |
Agreeing with Darwin | 74 |
Disagreeing with Darwin | 77 |
Genetics | 81 |
Name Selection | 86 |
Beyond Natural Selection | 87 |
Darwinism | 105 |
Biogeography | 108 |
The Amazon | 109 |
Wallaces Line | 112 |
Synthesis | 117 |
Natural History and Conservation | 125 |
The Amazon | 127 |
Southeast Asia | 132 |
Conservation | 146 |
Geography Geology and Glaciology | 154 |
Geology | 156 |
Glaciology | 164 |
Humans | 167 |
Expectations | 265 |
City Life | 270 |
Life in the Field | 273 |
An industrious and persevering traveller | 281 |
Hazardous Voyages | 290 |
American Travels | 303 |
Social Issues | 307 |
Evolution of a Socialist | 309 |
The Land Problem | 319 |
Public Health | 333 |
Institutional Reform | 342 |
Public Education | 351 |
Capitalism and Empire | 357 |
Globalization | 368 |
War and Imperialism | 370 |
Wallace and Darwin | 379 |
Notes | 385 |
Bibliography | 413 |
A Selection of Publications on or about Wallace | 418 |
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