Alfred Russel Wallace’s formal education was limited to six years at a one-room grammar school in Hertford, England. Living in London with his brother John, 14-year-old Wallace pursued self-education, reading treatises and attending lectures that formed the basis of his religious skepticism and his reformist and socialist political philosophy. He later worked as a surveyor.
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