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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways

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Alfred Russel Wallace
Age: 90 †
Born: 1823
Born: January 8
Died: 1913
Died: November 7
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