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Reference

Wallace, A.R., "The limits of natural selection as applied to man", Contributions in the Theory of Natural Selection, 1870, pp. 332-371. Google

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Notes

http://www.wiku.edu/~smithch/wallace/S165.htm

Quotations
332 ;;Quote: the survival of the fittest explains the variety of the animal and vegetable kingdoms
332+;;Quote: natural selection does not explain consciousness and the development of man
346 ;;Quote: neither man's brain nor hairless back are explained by natural selection; e.g., people typically cover their back
358 ;;Quote: immediate material welfare can not explain mathematics, philosophy, yearning for abstract truth, transcending time and space, and spiritual development
360 ;;Quote: nature as unconscious intelligence is unintelligible; but some law must exist for the origin of life and organization
361 ;;Quote: our thoughts, like other vital phenomena, are the expression of molecular changes
361+;;Quote: the molecular basis of life is incapable of proof and inconsistent with molecular physics
365 ;;Quote: mind can not arise from mindless parts; either all matter is consciousness, or consciousness is distinct from matter
365 ;;Quote: matter is nothing but force; matter does not itself exist; we experience matter as force
367 ;;Quote: if our will initiates at least one force, then all force is ultimately will-force
367+;;Quote: the universe is the will of higher intelligences or a supreme intelligence


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