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further on ; but I doubt if his view or yours will really account for 

 the facts. Of course we look at the question from different stand- 

 points. I (think I) knoiv that non-human intelligences exist — that 

 there are minds disconnected from a physical brain — that there is, 

 therefore, a spiritual world. This is not, for me, a belief merely, but 

 knowledge founded on the long-continued observation of facts — and 

 such knowledge must modify my views as to the origin and nature of 

 human faculty." 



Thinking of Wallace's happy, strenuous life, we are led to realize 

 man's independence of wealth and circumstance, to know by his 

 example that, if it be great enough, " the mind is its own placeY' and 

 is "not to be changed by place or time." And looking back on 

 his ninety years of strength and many-sided activity we recall other 

 words written by the same great master of thought and language : — 



" Nothing is here for tears, nothing to wail 

 Or knock the breast, no weakness, no contempt, 

 Dispraise, or blame, nothing but well and fair." 



E. B. POULTON. 



