[1]1
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."
Status: Draft transcription [Transcription (WCP1779.1665)]
For more information about the transcriptions and metadata, see https://wallaceletters.myspecies.info/content/epsilon
Please cite as “WCP1779,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 28 April 2024, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP1779