Infinite Tropics: An Alfred Russel Wallace AnthologyVerso, 17. dets 2003 - 430 pages "Alfred Russel Wallace was thirty-five and stricken with malaria in the Moluccan Islands when, in a feverish 'flash of light,' he stumbled on the theory of natural selection. It was his letter to Charles Darwin about the discovery that panicked Darwin into rushing out On the Origin of Species. Wallace was a towering figure of nineteenth-century science. Not only the co-discoverer of natural selection, he was also the founder of island biogeography, a significant contributor to the fields of evolution, glaciology and anthropology, and a great writer, author of Travels in the Amazon and The Malay Archipelago. But his international scientific reputation served also as a springboard for wide-ranging forays beyond science. A passionate socialist, he wrote on pacifism, on the environmental and social effects of imperialism, on city planning, on land nationalization, on votes for women, on public health, on spiritualism, on the possibility of intelligent extra-terrestrial life, and much else besides.Culled from his books, articles and letters, this collection comprises Wallace's best and most important writing, much of which has been out of print for over a century. Ranging from the scientific to the social, from the political to the spiritual, the selection captures the essence of a great thinker, brilliant, opinionated, often quirky, sometimes wrong, but always profoundly humane. Andrew Berry's anthology rescues Wallace's legacy, showing Wallace, through extracts from personal letters, his political writings, and scientific papers, to be far more than the co-discoverer of natural selection." -- Publisher. |
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Page xi
... Perhaps all cultures do not judge in this unfair manner but , in our system , winning or being first takes all the kudos and wins all renown , whereas even the most honorable second - place finish spells Editor's Note.
... Perhaps all cultures do not judge in this unfair manner but , in our system , winning or being first takes all the kudos and wins all renown , whereas even the most honorable second - place finish spells Editor's Note.
Page 9
... perhaps superior to it . He is an ardent admirer and most able supporter of Mr. Lyell's views . His style of writing I very much admire , so free from all labour , affectation , or egotism , and yet so full of interest and original ...
... perhaps superior to it . He is an ardent admirer and most able supporter of Mr. Lyell's views . His style of writing I very much admire , so free from all labour , affectation , or egotism , and yet so full of interest and original ...
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... perhaps the most elegant butterfly in the world " , 58 Ornithoptera Brookeana , 59 after him . From Borneo he headed , via Lombok , to Sulawesi and on to the Aru Islands off the south - east coast of New Guinea , where he found the ...
... perhaps the most elegant butterfly in the world " , 58 Ornithoptera Brookeana , 59 after him . From Borneo he headed , via Lombok , to Sulawesi and on to the Aru Islands off the south - east coast of New Guinea , where he found the ...
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... perhaps expressed in the following passage from the Washington Post : " It is astounding that a man who really possesses the power of induction and ratiocination , and who , in physical synthesis has been a leader of his generation ...
... perhaps expressed in the following passage from the Washington Post : " It is astounding that a man who really possesses the power of induction and ratiocination , and who , in physical synthesis has been a leader of his generation ...
Page 24
... Perhaps Annie had no idea when she signed on with Wallace that his return to England had not fully exorcized her husband's wanderlust . The Alfred Russel Wallace in later life ( from Wallace's Revolt 24 INFINITE TROPICS.
... Perhaps Annie had no idea when she signed on with Wallace that his return to England had not fully exorcized her husband's wanderlust . The Alfred Russel Wallace in later life ( from Wallace's Revolt 24 INFINITE TROPICS.
Contents
Evolution | 27 |
The Ternate Paper | 46 |
Darwin and Natural Selection | 58 |
Evolution by Natural Selection | 65 |
Agreeing with Darwin | 68 |
Disagreeing with Darwin | 71 |
Genetics | 75 |
Name Selection | 80 |
Conversion | 215 |
Spiritualism and Science | 227 |
A World Viewed Through the Lens of Spiritualism | 242 |
Travel | 253 |
Expectations | 257 |
City Life | 262 |
Life in the Field | 265 |
An industrious and persevering traveller | 273 |
Beyond Natural Selection | 81 |
Darwinism | 99 |
Biogeography | 102 |
The Amazon | 103 |
Wallaces Line | 106 |
Synthesis | 111 |
Natural History and Conservation | 119 |
The Amazon | 121 |
Southeast Asia | 126 |
Conservation | 140 |
Geography Geology and Glaciology | 148 |
Geology | 150 |
Glaciology | 158 |
Humans | 161 |
Uncivilised people | 163 |
Human Evolution | 169 |
Human Improvement | 204 |
Spiritualism and Metaphysics | 213 |
Hazardous Voyages | 282 |
American Travels | 295 |
Social Issues | 299 |
Evolution of a Socialist | 301 |
The Land Problem | 311 |
Public Health | 325 |
Institutional Reform | 332 |
Public Education | 341 |
Capitalism and Empire | 347 |
Globalization | 358 |
War and Imperialism | 360 |
Wallace and Darwin | 369 |
Notes | 375 |
Bibliography | 403 |
A Selection of Publications on or about Wallace | 408 |
Index | 411 |
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