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Parkstone Dorset

June 26. 1899

To Mr Harrison²

Thanks for your letter[.]

I congratulate you on the full recognition of your long-continued labours in the course of science.

It is well deserved. Everything comes to him who waits & works.

Yours very sincerely | Alfred R. Wallace [signature]

After receiving this letter I turned to Wallace's book "Miracles["]³ & at page 29, I find a line down & so copy.

["]It is time that the "derisive & unexamining incredulity" which has hitherto existed should give way to a less dogmatic and more philosophical spirit, or history will again have to record the melancholy spectacle of men, who should have known better! assuming to limit the discovery of new (facts) in the universe, and deciding without investigation, whether other mens observations are true or false."