I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
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Alfred Russel Wallace
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About Alfred Russel Wallace
Alfred Russel Wallace was an English naturalist, explorer, geographer, anthropologist, biologist and illustrator. He independently conceived the theory of evolution through natural selection; his 1858 paper on the subject was published that year alongside extracts from Charles Darwin's writings on the topic. It spurred Darwin to set aside the "big species book" he was drafting and to quickly write an abstract of it, which was published in 1859 as On the Origin of Species.
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by Alfred Russel WallaceCivilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race.
What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters.
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.
In my solitude I have pondered much on the incomprehensible subjects of space, eternity, life and death.