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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... industrious and persevering traveller ” 281 " Tedious and unfortunate " : Hazardous Voyages 290 " A want of harmony between man and nature " : American Travels 303 Social Issues 307 Evolution of a Socialist 309 " Robbery vi CONTENTS.
... industrious and persevering traveller ” 281 " Tedious and unfortunate " : Hazardous Voyages 290 " A want of harmony between man and nature " : American Travels 303 Social Issues 307 Evolution of a Socialist 309 " Robbery vi CONTENTS.
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An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology Alfred Russel Wallace Andrew Berry. Social Issues 307 Evolution of a Socialist 309 " Robbery of the poor by the rich " : The Land Problem 319 Public Health 333 Institutional Reform 342 Public Education ...
An Alfred Russel Wallace Anthology Alfred Russel Wallace Andrew Berry. Social Issues 307 Evolution of a Socialist 309 " Robbery of the poor by the rich " : The Land Problem 319 Public Health 333 Institutional Reform 342 Public Education ...
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... social and intellectual standing in an age when such factors , albeit always crucial , mattered far more than in our own times . But his father's finances and status failed and Wallace grew up in a poverty ( and with limited formal ...
... social and intellectual standing in an age when such factors , albeit always crucial , mattered far more than in our own times . But his father's finances and status failed and Wallace grew up in a poverty ( and with limited formal ...
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... Social ) , I have given the full original reference and the page numbers of the extract in the reprint , because readers interested in the context of an excerpt will in general find reprints easier to track down than originals . Wallace ...
... Social ) , I have given the full original reference and the page numbers of the extract in the reprint , because readers interested in the context of an excerpt will in general find reprints easier to track down than originals . Wallace ...
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... social injustices of the age came in the early 1840s when he was working as a surveyor in rural South Wales , which was then in a state of virtual open rebellion as agricultural prices plummeted and government cash demands on farmers ...
... social injustices of the age came in the early 1840s when he was working as a surveyor in rural South Wales , which was then in a state of virtual open rebellion as agricultural prices plummeted and government cash demands on farmers ...
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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