Wallace : Sir William (c.1270-1305), one of Scotland’s greatest national heroes, leader of the Scottish resistance forces during the first years of the long, & ultimately successful, struggle to free Scotland from English rule.
... wrote to Wallace: “I can plainly see that we have thought much alike and to a certain extent have come to similar conclusions.” But he deemed himself quite superior to the practically unknown man in Sarawak, and wrote in the margin of his copy of the article “nothing very new.” – “Alfred Wallace was someone Darwin had never taken seriously, even in the face of warnings.” 12 Wallace was suffering... Alfred Russel Wallace … Wallace had been taken to the cleaners. His name, though given equal billing with Darwin’s, was now sure to be eclipsed by it. After all, it wasn’t news that some young upstart had declared himself an evolutionist and proposed an evolutionary mechanism; it was news that the well-known and respected Charles Darwin had done so. …Today Darwin is Darwin, and Wallace is an asterisk... selection was settled in his favour, Wallace may have been the victim of a conspiracy with Darwin’s knowledge.) Darwin will be joined by the scientific establishment, in his time and in the eyes of the future, to condemn Alfred Wallace as scientifically spurious, and thereby eclipse him to the present day. As Joseph Hooker wrote to his friend Charles: “Wallace has lost caste terribly,” 43 and he ...
... variations which evolved into distinct species.” 4 This paper gave Wallace priority of publication of his theory of evolution, but it was not mentioned in the documentation of the case as presented at the decisive meeting of the Linnean Society. Moreover, everything was done post-haste without consulting Wallace. That Wallace afterwards humbly agreed to the whole procedure is of course no proof... “twenty or so pages of text on rice paper” was Alfred Wallace (1823-1913), a former schoolteacher who had become a passionate naturalist, and was at that time exploring the Malay Archipelago. “I can have no fear of having to suffer for the study of nature and the search for truth,” he had once written. Darwin had been five years on the Beagle ; Wallace had been four years in Amazonia and would remain... equal [i.e. Darwin], and defending the ranks and procedures of respectable science against the lower-class outsider Alfred Wallace. “Had Darwin’s friends acted immorally? Certainly they had bent the rules to advance their friend’s position at Wallace’s expense.” In 1855 Wallace had published the “Sarawak Law paper”, which was “the first ever British scientific paper to claim that animals had descended ...
... existence in man of a number of his most characteristic and noblest faculties such as mathematical reasoning, aesthetic appreciation, and abstract thinking [i.e. the full-blown mind of Homo sapiens]: Wallace asserted his view of the levels of being explicitly: “The grand law of ‘continuity’, the last outcome of modern science, which seems absolute throughout the realm of matter, [life-]force and mind,... the narrow sphere of our vision, and leave an absolute chasm between man and the Great Mind of the universe. Such a supposition seems to me in the highest degree improbable.” 7 While Alfred Wallace, as a naturalist another Darwin but also a great human being, saw the different levels of reality as “the last outcome of modern science,” scientific materialism judged this conception of his to be... natural species a theoretically possible intermediate type, that type must be realized, otherwise there would be gaps in the universe.” 16 From the principle of continuity, still so called by Alfred Wallace, followed logically the notion of infinitesimal gradation “which was of the essence of the cosmological Chain of Being.” “It was Aristotle,” during the Middle Ages held in such high esteem that ...
... direction is that he is unconscious of a subtle point about those plumages. Alfred Russell Wallace, co-discoverer with Darwin of natural selection, brings up the puzzle in his Tropical Nature (first published in 1879). Criticizing Darwin's theory of "sexual Page 325 selection" in this field, Wallace, as quoted by Hardy, writes in his chapter, "Colours of Animals": We now come to... supposedly due to a higher male metabolic rate"14 - has not proved satisfactory. The colour patterns and behaviour we now know to be certainly directed towards the female. "Nevertheless, the puzzle which Wallace pointed out of the extraordinary constant nature of the patterns still persists."15 Hardy has no doubt that the "design" is coded by the genes, yet in view of the great variability which science ...
... "swart ship" is seldom actually seen, it moves most of the time submarine-like under the water, but we are not long left in doubt regarding its reality. In his fine poem, The Sail of Ulysses, Wallace Stevens projects a "Symbol of the seeker, crossing by night/The giant sea", prospecting seas of thought, alone and unafraid: Page 393 There is a human loneliness, A... In the realm of untainted sovereign Truth at last. Page 394 How then shall the mind be less than free Since only to know is to be free? 58 Such is Wallace Stevens' parable of the modern Ulysses' quest for freedom and felicity. The Ulysses myth has always proved a fecund source of inspiration to novelist and poet, and it seems to have (as George de ...
... contents and significance of Darwinism, as it is of evolutionary theory in general. Of this, the reader has been informed in the chapters on Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and Alfred Wallace. All three of them, Lamarck, Wallace and Darwin, were exponents of their time, passionate students of their subject, and well-read in all texts available on it, among them the works of Linnaeus, Cuvier, Buffon, Erasmus ...
... him as only the image of Nature's selection. Meanwhile almost analogous ideas concerning artificial selection were formulated by A. R. Wallace (1823 - 1913) who expressed these in a letter addressed to the geologist Lyell. At Lyell's suggestion, Darwin and Wallace read their respective memoirs, in July 1858, at a sitting of the Linnean Society of London. Soon after, in 1859, Darwin published the essence ...
... Somadeva 48 Spengler, Oswald 400 Spiegelberg, Frederic 53 Stacc.W.T. 272 Stambler, Bernard 272, 380 Stanford, W.B. 402 Stephen, J.K. 376 Stevens, Wallace 313, 314, 396 398 Stoudt, J.J. 20,21 Strachey, Lytton 346, 347 Strong, L.A.G. 294 Swinburne, Algernon Charles 9 Synthesis of Yoga, The 20, 24, 25... 417 Vivekananda, Swami 4, 5,19 Viziers of Bassora, The 47, 49, 318 Vyasa 135,137,209,257,258,261,262, Wadia,B.P.77 Walker, Dr. 7 Wallace, Alfred 252 Whitehead, A.N. 33, 34 Whitman, Walt 377,387-389 394 Willey, Basil 410 Williams, Charles 381, 448 Williams, Tennessee 268 Winternitz ...
... desert of reason but has its own sensuous arbours, delectable oases, and the towered castles of the imagination. It is interesting to watch the sudden rise in the tempo of a piece of poetry like Wallace Stevens' 'Negation: Hi! The creator too is blind, Struggling towards his harmonious whole, Rejecting intermediate parts, Horrors and falsities and wrongs;... and Eliot, all three seem to make play with 'night' or 'dark; Yeats seems to charge 'ravening' and 'desolation' with a certain violence; 'quartz' and 'stone' in Emily Dickinson and 'holy hush' in Wallace Stevens seem verbal tricks at first. Yet, in the particular contexts, when the words sink into the inward ear, the lines acquire a life and soul of their own, and, perhaps begging the question, ...
... which many wavelengths are contacted and received; but you do not understand Bangkok or Teheran. The wavelength's job is to be communicable; if I find I cannot make head or tail of Sri Aurobindo or Wallace Stevens, I think I am within my rights to push on to a greener pasture. Perhaps if I spent time on Sri Aurobindo, I might pick up something. But you cannot compel that from me, I am afraid it ...
... 'thought' and the 'action'. Sethna justifies this by pointing out that "Symbolism subdues the inwardly perceived to the outwardly conceived". With ample examples from Valery, Pierre Emmanuel and Wallace Stevens, Sethna beautifully brings out the dhvani technique of Mallarmé. The commentaries of Sethna, apart from drawing out the wheel-within-wheel significance, demonstrate the technique that ...
... study had gained standing in science.” The scientists named in the previous paragraphs had all acceded to high positions in learning and scientific authority. “Then came the centennials of the Darwin-Wallace papers in 1958 and The Origin of Species in 1959. Books and articles on Darwinism marked these occasions for the public. Scientific associations commemorated them with conferences hailing the founders ...
... air, and that Darwinism became the flag under which evolution conquered the thought and self-view of humanity because so many different theories could assemble under it. Proof of this is that Alfred Wallace, basing himself on the same ideas, reached the same conclusions. But also swimming in the same intellectual waters were Lamarck, Erasmus Darwin, Robert Chambers, Herbert Spencer, Thomas Huxley, and ...
... system, a view abandoned by science in 1927. Darwin was the father of the theory of evolution? Jean-Baptiste de Lamarck and others formulated coherent evolutionary theories before him, and Alfred Wallace at the same time as he. The big apes were our direct ancestors? Paleoanthropology has not yet been able to pinpoint the origin of the real Homo species (see e.g. Pascal Picq: Les origines de l’homme ...
... In Madras, almost broke, he continued organising labour welfare organisations. VOC attended the Calcutta Indian National Congress in 1920. On hearing of VOC's destitute condition, Justice Wallace, the judge who had sentenced VOC and was now Chief Justice of Madras Presidency, restored his bar license. But VOC spent his last years (1930s) in Kovilpatti heavily in debt, even selling all of his ...
... years. The remaining accused were sentenced to varying terms of lesser imprisonment. Appeals were filed against the judgement and a Bench of five judges comprising Sir Ralph Benson, John Wallace, Miller, Abdul Rahim and P. R. Sundara Iyer heard them. C. J. Napier, now as the Advocate-General appeared for the Crown assisted by T. Richmond while the accused were defended by T. Prakasam and others ...
... Mahabharata that have also won the affections of many generations of men, but the Savitri stands apart even among them, verily a star. "The 'story of Savitri' is the gem of the whole poem", wrote Alfred Wallace, 5 "and I cannot recall anything in poetry more beautiful, or any higher teaching as to the sanctity of love and marriage. We have really not advanced one step beyond this old-world people in our ...
... p. 309 26. Ibid., p. 383 27. Life-Literature-Yoga (1967), pp. 95-96. Also Sri Aurobindo, Vol. 26, p. 253 28. Amers has been translated into English by Wallace Fowlie, and the bilingual edition was published in the Bolingen series (Pantheon Books) in 1958. The English translation is entitled Seamarks. 29. Sri Aurobindo, Vol ...
... Bande Mataram under the Editorship of Sri Aurobindo 28.May-22.Dec.1907 Bande Mataram By the Way 05-December-1907 The Scots who had not with Wallace bled but emigrated from the land of Bruce and his spider to exploit and "administer" spider fashion the land of Shivaji and Pratap, met again this year for their great national feed. The menu began with ...
... heights and see the glow of the hidden glory: The intolerable vastness still, to the uttermost star. (George Russell, "Dark Rapture") The infinite incantation of our selves (Wallace Stevens, "The Poems of our Climate") II ponente schiumd ne' suoi capegli Immensa apparve, immensa nudita (Gabriele d'Annunzio, "Stabat nuda aestas") (In her [Summer's] ...
... between two Kuhnian paradigms in science. They personified the transition between the Newtonian era, as it were solidified by the 19th century positivism we have met in the lives of Lamarck, Darwin and Wallace, and their own 20th century thinking which put everything into question. An important factor here is that religion was no longer part of the equation. Spirituality, or “mysticism”, or “the oceanic ...
... the making of a great book or rather it is a great book caught in a miniature glimpse, as it were." My opinion on somewhat similar lines is about the work of that most popular writer, Edgar Wallace. Unlike Christie's Page 59 "whodunits", none of his potboilers will survive, but future critics may chance upon one novel of his unlike anything else he wrote. It is called Masters ...
... which many wavelengths are contacted and received; but you do not understand Bangkok or Teheran. The wavelength's job is to be communicable; if I find I cannot make head or tail of Sri Aurobindo or Wallace Stevens, I think I am within my rights to push on to a greener pasture. Perhaps if I spent time on Sri Aurobindo, I might pick up something. But you cannot compel that from me. I am afraid ...
... Rose of God. Sethna repeatedly quotes Sri Aurobindo, especially on Mallarmé's poetry, and the spinal column of the argument is that past Mallarmé, past Valery, past Yeats, Eliot and Wallace Stevens, there shines Sri Aurobindo the pole star, the laureate of Overhead Poetry and Savitri . In the second part, Sethna remarks that Mallarmé "is likely to suffer least by being ...
... biology, could no longer be adduced as an argument to explain the gaps. He lashed out at the theory of gradualism, which originally was a geological theory and against which Thomas Huxley and Alfred Wallace had cautioned Darwin from the start. Gould wrote that the “assumptions of gradualism had stymied and constrained our comprehension of the earth’s much richer history.” He found himself “forced to ...
... has sprung up since the middle of the nineteenth century. This has been given the name of "Psychical Research"; and in its earlier phase even reputed orthodox scientists like Sir Oliver Lodge, Dr. Wallace and Dr. Crookes got associated with it, giving to this new research much credence and respectability. Many bulky volumes embodying the findings of these "psychical" researchers have seen the ...
... Divine Comedy (Peter Owen, London, 1958). Stanford, W.B. The Ulysses Theme : A Study in the Adaptability of a Traditional Hero (Basil Blackwell, Oxford, 1954). Stevens, Wallace. Collected Poems (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957). Opus Posthumous (Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1957). Stoudt, John Joseph. Sunrise to Eternity : A Study in Jacob Boehme's ...
... possible by the tension of much reflection or experimenting. Newton’s apple is a well-known example; whether a real event or legend, it certainly tells of an instant illumination. We have seen how Wallace’s theory of evolution came to him “in a sudden flash of insight” during a bout of fever on a tropical island. August Kekulé ‘saw’ the structure of the benzene ring, the key to organic chemistry, while ...
... 1911, p. 367. 3. Op. cit, vol. i. p. 137. 4. Monadology, sec. 44, Latta's translation. 5. Transcendental Dialectic, Prof. Watson's translation, pp. 208-209. 6. Logic of Hegel, Wallace's tr., 2nd ed., pp. 108-109. The validity of the Theistic Proofs was a subject in which Hegel was interested, and he has written at some length on them in the Appendix to his Phil, der Religion ...
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