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Marchant, James

"Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences, Vol. 1"


There is nothing I like better than writing a little account of it, and
trying to make it clear to the meanest capacity.
The "Croll" question is awfully difficult. I had gone into it more
fully, but the Editor made me cut out eight pages.
I am very sorry indeed to hear of your accident, but trust you will soon
recover and that it will leave no bad effects.
I can quite comprehend your feelings with regard to my "unscientific"
opinions as to Man, because a few years back I should myself have
looked at them as equally wild and uncalled for. I shall look with
extreme interest for what you are writing on Man, and shall give full
weight to any explanations you can give of his probable origin. My
opinions on the subject have been modified solely by the consideration
of a series of remarkable phenomena, physical and mental, which I have
now had every opportunity of fully testing, and which demonstrate the
existence of forces and influences not yet recognised by science. This
will, I know, seem to you like some mental hallucination, but as I can
assure you from personal communication with them, that Robert Chambers,
Dr.


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