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WCP3211

Letter (WCP3211.3179)

[1]1

Steventon Vicarage

Berks

March 23. 1903

Dear Sir

I thank you for your comprehensive & most suggestive "Mans Place in the Universe"2 in the Fortnightly this month. In page 399 — Concentric spheres — you say "that if these were infinite we shd receive an infinite amount of Light". If it were the case that we get no light [2] from stars invisible thro’ distance — so that their light reaching us only after immense periods of time must affect us very gradually — I hope I am wrong; and as a clergyman I thank you again for yr testimony from Nature this new astronomy to the truth that man always has been "the apple of the Divine Eye". Ps. 17-8.

Yrs with admiration | Revd A. L. Foulkes3 [signature]

1
In ARW’s handwriting, “Answd”.
2
Wallace, A. R. 1903. Man’s Place in the Universe. The Fortnightly Review 73 (1 March), pp. 395-411.
3
Foulkes, Augustine Lempriere (1840-1922). Vicar of Steventon, Berkshire.

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Status: Draft transcription [Letter (WCP3211.3179)]

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Revision history

Transcribed by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-06] Transcription checked by Benny, Ruth [2015-07-06] Transcription checked by Sherwood, Danni [2020-08-10] Transcription checked by Chua, Christine [2026-04-18]

Please cite as “WCP3211,” in Beccaloni, G. W. (ed.), Ɛpsilon: The Alfred Russel Wallace Collection accessed on 5 June 2025, https://epsilon.ac.uk/view/wallace/letters/WCP3211