Truth is born into this world only with pangs and tribulations, and every fresh truth is received unwillingly.
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.Alfred Russel Wallace
I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Nature seems to have taken every precaution that these, her choicest treasures, may not lose value by being too easily obtained.
Alfred Russel Wallace
Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.
Alfred Russel Wallace
In all works on Natural History, we constantly find details of the marvellous adaptation of animals to their food, their habits, and the localities in which they are found.
Alfred Russel Wallace
But I think that a little consideration will show you that belief is quite independent of our will, and our common expressions show it.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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