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Alfred Russel Wallace
British
January 8, 1823
Scientist
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Time
Matter
Form
To the mass of mankind religion of some kind is a necessity.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Religion
Some
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russel Wallace
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More
Than
Bills
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Society
Marriage
Will
But naturalists are now beginning to look beyond this, and to see that there must be some other principle regulating the infinitely varied forms of animal life.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Life
Some
Other
If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Future
People
Will
As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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