Alfred Russel Wallace 



wonderful book *' Life and Habit," and now even Haeckel 

 seems to adopt it. All theories of heredity, including Dar- 

 win's pangenesis, do not touch it, and it seems to me a« 

 fundamental as life and consciousness, and to be absolutely 

 inconceivable by us till we know what life is, what spirit 

 is, and what matter is; and it is probable that we must 

 develop in the spirit world some few thousand million years 

 before we get to this knowledge — if then ! 



My book, " Man's Place in the Universe," shows, I think, 

 indications of the vast importance of that Universe as the 

 producer of Man which so many scientific men to-day try to 

 belittle, because of what may be, in the infinite ! — Yours very 

 truly, Alfred R. Wallace, 



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