Alfred Russel Wallace Quote

Is it not fitting that, as intellectual beings with such high powers, we should each of us acquire a knowledge of what past generations have taught us, so that, should the opportunity occur, we may be able to add somewhat, however small, to the fund of instruction for posterity?


My Life, Chapter XIV (p. 204)


Is it not fitting that, as intellectual beings with such high powers, we should each of us acquire a knowledge of what past generations have taught...

Is it not fitting that, as intellectual beings with such high powers, we should each of us acquire a knowledge of what past generations have taught...

Is it not fitting that, as intellectual beings with such high powers, we should each of us acquire a knowledge of what past generations have taught...

Is it not fitting that, as intellectual beings with such high powers, we should each of us acquire a knowledge of what past generations have taught...