The world of life
| Title | The world of life
a manifestation of creative power, directive mind and ultimate purpose |
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| Author | by Alfred Russel Wallace |
| Publication | Chapman & Hall |
| Size | XVI, 408p |
| Language |  ENG |
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| Topics |
Life science Biology--Ecology Life (Biology) |
| Notes | Wallace maintained that evolution suggested that the universe might have a purpose and that certain aspects of living organisms might not be explainable in terms of purely materialistic processes. "These considerations should lead us to look upon all the works of nature, animate or inanimate, as invested with a certain sanctity, to be used by us but not abused, and never to be recklessly destroyed or defaced. To pollute a spring or a river, to exterminate a bird or beast, should be treated as moral offences and as social crimes; ... Yet during the past century, which has seen those great advances in the knowledge of Nature of which we are so proud, there has been no corresponding development of a love or reverence for her works; so that never before has there been such widespread ravage of the earth's surface by destruction of native vegetation and with it of much animal life, and such wholesale defacement of the earth by mineral workings and by pouring into our streams and rivers the refuse of manufactories and of cities; and this has been done by all the greatest nations claiming the first place for civilisation and religion!" |
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