All this is, to me, the most gross travesty of science, and I
therefore object totally to the use of the term which is so vaguely and
absurdly used, and of which no clear and rational explanation has ever
been given.
You are now one of my oldest friends, and one with whom I most
sympathise; and I only regret that we have seen so little of each
other.--Yours very faithfully,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
* * * * *
TO MR. E. SMEDLEY
_Old Orchard, Broadstone, Dorset. October 2, 1911._
Dear Mr. Smedley,--I am quite astonished at your wasting your money on
an advertising astrologer. In the horoscope sent you there is not a
single definite fact that would apply to you any more than to thousands
of other men. All is vague, what "might be," etc. etc. It is just
calculated to lead you on to send more money, and get in reply more
words and nothing else....--Yours very truly,
ALFRED R. WALLACE.
[Illustration: A.R. WALLACE ADMIRING _EREMUS ROBUSTUS_ about 1905.]
PART VII
Characteristics
"There is a point of view so lofty or so peculiar that from it we
are able to discern in men and women something more than and apart
from creed and profession and formulated principle; which indeed
directs and colours this creed and principle as decisively as it
is in its turn acted on by them, and this is their character or
humanity.
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