Random thoughts on an impossible subject

Moreover the “Ternate Essay” was not the first fruit of Wallace’s thoughts on that subject. In February 1855, while the guest of Sir James Brooke, the “White Rajah” of Sarawak, he had written what became known as the “Sarawak Essay.” 7 Published later that year, it had impressed Sir Charles Lyell and given him the premonition that ... ................
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