Wallace's advocacy of a Creator, what Wallace called his "little heresy," coupled with his support for spiritualism, dropped Wallace's standing in the scientific community. {{cquote|"Wallace has lost [[caste]] considerably, not only by his adhesion to Spiritualism, but by the fact of his having deliberately and against the whole voice of the committee of his section of the [[British Association]], brought about a discussion of on Spiritualism at one of its sectional meetings. That he is said to have done so in an underhanded manner, and I well remember the indignation it gave rise to in the B.A. Council." | Wallace's advocacy of a Creator, what Wallace called his "little heresy," coupled with his support for spiritualism, dropped Wallace's standing in the scientific community. {{cquote|"Wallace has lost [[caste]] considerably, not only by his adhesion to Spiritualism, but by the fact of his having deliberately and against the whole voice of the committee of his section of the [[British Association]], brought about a discussion of on Spiritualism at one of its sectional meetings. That he is said to have done so in an underhanded manner, and I well remember the indignation it gave rise to in the B.A. Council." |