Selections from Previous Works. Samuel Butler

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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Table of Contents

       PREFACE.

       SELECTIONS FROM EREWHON. [1]

       CURRENT OPINIONS . (chapter x. of erewhon .)

       AN EREWHONIAN TRIAL. (chapter xi. of erewhon .)

       MALCONTENTS. (part of chapter xii. of erewhon .)

       THE MUSICAL BANKS. (chapter xiv. of erewhon .)

       BIRTH FORMULÆ. (chapter xvii. of erewhon .)

       THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN. (part of chapter xvii. of erewhon .)

       SELECTIONS FROM THE FAIR HAVEN.

       MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN PICKARD OWEN. (chapter i. of the fair haven .) [48]

       SELECTIONS FROM LIFE AND HABIT.

       ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS. (from chapter i. of life and habit .) [68]

       CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS THE LAW AND GRACE. (from chapter ii. of life and habit .)

       APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED INSTINCTIVE. (chapter iii. of life and habit .)

       PERSONAL IDENTITY. (chapter v. of life and habit .)

       INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY. (chapter xi. of life and habit .)

       CONCLUDING REMARKS. (from chapter xv. of life and habit .)

       SELECTIONS FROM EVOLUTION, OLD AND NEW. [131]

       IMPOTENCE OF PALEY’S CONCLUSION. THE TELEOLOGY OF THE EVOLUTIONIST. (from chapter iii. of evolution , old and new .)

       FAILURE OF THE FIRST EVOLUTIONISTS TO SEE THEIR POSITION AS TELEOLOGICAL. (chapter iv. of evolution , old and new .)

       THE TELEOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF ORGANISM. (chapter v. of evolution , old and new .)

       BUFFON—MEMOIR. (chapter viii. of evolution , old and new .)

       BUFFON’S METHOD—THE IRONICAL CHARACTER OF HIS WORK. (chapter ix. of evolution , old and new .)

       EXTRACTS FROM UNCONSCIOUS MEMORY.

       RECAPITULATION AND STATEMENT OF AN OBJECTION. (chapter x. of unconscious memory .) [181a]

       ON CYCLES. (chapter xi. of unconscious memory .)

       REPUTATION—MEMORY AT ONCE A PROMOTER AND A DISTURBER OF UNIFORMITY OF ACTION AND STRUCTURE. (chapter xii. of unconscious memory .)

       CONCLUSION. (chapter xiii. of unconscious memory .)

       REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS. [228a]

       REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS—(continued) .

       REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS—(concluded) .

       POSTSCRIPT.

       EXTRACTS FROM “ALPS AND SANCTUARIES OP PIEDMONT AND THE CANTON TICINO.”

       DALPE, PRATO, ROSSURA. (from chapter iii. of alps and sanctuaries .) [255]

       CALONICO. (from chapter v. of alps and sanctuaries .)

       PIORA. (from chapter vi. of alps and sanctuaries .) [275]

       S. MICHELE AND MONTE PIRCHIRIANO. (extracts from chapters vii. and x. of alps and sanctuaries .)

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