Alfred Wallace: 119 books

Few persons except astronomers fully realise that of all the planets of the Solar system the only one whose solid surface has been seen with certainty is Mars; and, very fortunately, that is also the only one which is sufficiently near to us for the physical features of the surface to be determined with...

When men attained to sufficient intelligence for speculations as to their own nature and that of the earth on which they lived, they must have been profoundly impressed by the nightly pageant of the starry heavens. The intense sparkling brilliancy of Sirius and Vega, the more massive and steady luminosity...

Lorsque l’homme eut l’intelligence suffisamment développée pour pouvoir méditer sur sa propre nature, ainsi que sur celle de la terre qu’il habitait, il dut être profondément impressionné par le spectacle nocturne des cieux étoilés. L’éclat intense et étincelant de Sirius...

The present work treats the problem of the Origin of Species on the same general lines as were adopted by Darwin; but from the standpoint reached after nearly thirty years of discussion, with an abundance of new facts and the advocacy of many new or old theories. While not attempting to deal, even in...

ON the morning of the 8th of January, 1858, I arrived at Ternate, the fourth of a row of fine conical volcanic islands which shirt the west coast of the large and almost unknown island of Gilolo. The largest and most perfectly conical mountain is Tidore, which is over four thousand Feet high— Ternate...

Gli argomenti trattati dall’autore in questo libro sono: Fede vecchia e fede nuova; Dubbi e incertezze; Scienza e religione in conflitto; Felicità o miseria del genere umano; Necessità etiche di un’altra vita; Fantasmi, visioni, avvertimenti, previsioni ecc.; La credenza in Satana e le manifestazioni...