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  • I spent, as you know, a year and a half in a clergyman's family and heard almost every Tuesday the very best, most earnest and most impressive preacher it has ever been my fortune to meet with, but it produced no effect whatever on my mind.

    Sir James Marchant, Alfred Russel Wallace (1916). “Alfred Russel Wallace: Letters and Reminiscences (Complete)”, p.80, Library of Alexandria