Life and Habit
by Samuel Butler
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About this eBook
- Author
- Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902
- Credits
- Transcribed from the 1910 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QH: Science: Natural history
- Subject
- Habit
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 6138
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/6138
- Release Date
- July 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Life and Habit
- 2.PREFACE.
- 3.AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 4.CONTENTS.
- 5.CHAPTER I. ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS.
- 6.CHAPTER II. CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS—THE LAW AND GRACE.
- 7.CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED INSTINCTIVE.
- 8.CHAPTER IV. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES TO ACTIONS AND HABITS ACQUIRED BEFORE BIRTH.
- 9.CHAPTER V. PERSONAL IDENTITY.
- 10.CHAPTER VI. PERSONAL IDENTITY —( continued ).
- 11.CHAPTER VII. OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES.
- 12.CHAPTER VIII. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS—THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTER.
- 13.CHAPTER IX. ON THE ABEYANCE OF MEMORY.
- 14.CHAPTER X. WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND IF DIFFERENTIATIONS OF STRUCTURE AND INSTINCT ARE MAINLY DUE TO MEMORY.
- 15.CHAPTER XI. INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY.
- 16.CHAPTER XII. INSTINCTS OF NEUTER INSECTS.
- 17.CHAPTER XIII. LAMARCK AND MR. DARWIN.
- 18.CHAPTER XIV. MR. MIVART AND MR. DARWIN.
- 19.CHAPTER XV. CONCLUDING REMARKS.
- 20.APPENDIX AUTHOR’S ADDENDA — I See Page 13 — II See Page 18 — III See Page 25 — IV. See Page 239
- 21.FOOTNOTES
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