"Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. By Sir Charles Lyell.tenth and entirely revised edition." In: Quarterly Review.

(Wallace, A. R.) "Principles of Geology; or, the Modern Changes of the Earth and its Inhabitants considered as illustrative of Geology. By Sir Charles Lyell.tenth and entirely revised edition." In: Quarterly Review, London, John Murray, 1869, vol 126, January & April 1869. iv,iv,596pp. Bound in original half calf abd marbled boards. Very nice, solid, crisp copy. The binding as a bit of scuffing to the very decorated spine (raised bands, red-ish labels, 3 gilt stamped dentelles in the open panels. VG copy. The Wallace review is on pp 359-394. [++] (Sir Charles Lyell on Geological Climates and the Origin of Species [Reviews of Principles of Geology (10th ed.), 1867- 68, and Elements of Geology (6th ed.) 1865, both by Sir Charles Lyell].) [++] "An anonymously penned review of Charles Lyell's Principles of Geology and Elements of Geology published in the April 1869 issue of Quarterly Review. At the end of this essay Wallace famously states his objections to Darwinian views on human evolution."--Alfred Russell Wallace page online. [++] This is the first appearance of Wallace's continental glaciation, coming a few months earlier than when it was featured in fuller details in his "Island Life." that was published in 1870. "The book ["Island Life"] includes history’s first theory of continental glaciation based on a combination of geographical and astronomical causes" [in relation to glaciation processes to the known characteristics of geographical distribution of plants and animals].--from the preface by David Quammen in the 2013 edition of Wallace's "Island Life, or, the Phenomena and Causes of Insular Faunas and Floras, Including a Revision and Attempted Solution of the Problem of Geological Climates" [++] "But, in 1869, Wallace reversed course, arguing that consideration of certain human characteristics, forced the conclusion that, in contrast to all other extant species, human beings had been created by a “higher intelligence.” The focus of Wallace’s argument in the 1869 article, and in a more extensive chapter published the following year, involved the human brain and mind. Some writers considering his defection from evolutionary orthodoxy have focused on Wallace’s conversion to spiritualism in the years preceding the 1869 paper in "The Quarterly Review". Although I am convinced that spiritualism played a major role, in the pages that follow, I follow Frank Turner (1974), in emphasizing the impact of Wallace’s commitment to phrenology, as a critical component of the events that led Wallace to reject natural selection as the sole determinant of human origins. The path that led to the disagreement between Darwin and Wallace over human evolution was lengthy and complex." AND: "In 1869, when Wallace was 43 years of age, he suddenly rejected Natural Selection as the sole element involved in the genesis of humanity. The vehicle was a review by Wallace of several books on Geology by Charles Lyell in the Quarterly Review, a popular journal of intellectual society. Scanning the Table of Contents for that issue illustrates the extent to which science was embedded in the fabric of English intellectual life, with Wallace’ review of serious geological text sandwiched between the poetry of Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning and an article on “English Statesman Since the Peace of 1815.” Wallace (1869) now decided that human hairlessness, the structure of the human hand and the vocal power of the larynx could not have contributed to survival and reproduction and therefore could not have been selected. But the center of Wallace’ objections involved behavioral attributes and the human brain (the underlining in the following passage is Darwin’s, as found in Darwin’s copy of the Wallace review."--Stephen E. Glickman, "Charles Darwin, Alfred Russel Wallace, and the Evolution / Creation of the Human Brain And Mind. [++] Wallace published his main arguments supporting the occurrence of cyclic ice ages in two papers in 1879 and the.…