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tailed treatment of this argument will be given fur- 

 ther on; here reference is made to it as furnishing 

 the explanation why Mr. Wallace kept not his " first 

 estate," and dropped out of the ranks of Pioneers of 

 Evolution. Many subjects, as hinted above, have 

 occupied his facile pen — land nationalization, causes 

 of depression in trade, labourers' allotments, vaccina- 

 tion, et hoc genus omne; showing, at least, the promi- 

 nence which all social matters occupy in the minds of 

 the leading exponents of the theory of Evolution. 

 For of this, as will be seen, both Herbert Spencer 

 and Huxley supply cogent examples in their applica- 

 tion of that theory to. human interests. But it is as a 

 defender, although on lines of his own not wholly 

 orthodox, of supernaturalism, with attendant beliefs 

 in miracles and the grosser forms of spiritualism, 

 that Mr. Wallace appears in the character of oppo- 

 n ent to the inclusion of man's psychical n ature as a 

 produc t of Evolutiop . 



The arresting influence of these views when 

 backed by honest, sincere, and eminent men of the 

 type of Mr. Wallace, and when also supported by 

 several prominent men of science, renders it desirable 

 to show that modem psychism is but savage animism 

 " writ large," and wholly explicable on the theory of 

 continuity. In his book on Miracles and Modern 

 Spiritualism, of which a revised edition, with chapters 

 on Apparitions and Phantasms, was issued in 1895, 

 Mr. Wallace contends that "Spiritualism, if true, 

 furnishes such proofs of the existence of ethereal 



