Selections from Previous Works

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Author

Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

Title

Selections from Previous Works With Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals, and a Psalm of Montreal

Credits

Transcribed from the 1884 Trubner & Co. edition by David Price

Language

English

LoC Class

PR: Language and Literatures: English literature

Subject

Romanes, George John, 1848-1894. Mental evolution in animals

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Text

eBook-No.

19610

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/19610

Release Date

October 24, 2006

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKS
2. 2.PREFACE.
3. 3.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 .)
4. 4.SELECTIONS FROM THE FAIR HAVEN. — MEMOIR OF THE LATE JOHN PICKARD OWEN. ( chapter i. of the fair haven .) [48]
5. 5.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 .)
6. 6.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 .)
7. 7.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 .)
8. 8.REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS. [228a]
9. 9.REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS—( continued ).
10. 10.REMARKS ON MR. ROMANES’ MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS—( concluded ). — POSTSCRIPT.
11. 11.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 .) — CONSIDERATIONS ON THE DECLINE OF ITALIAN ART. ( from chapter xiii. of alps and sanctuaries .) — SANCTUARIES OF OROPA AND GRAGLIA. ( from chapters xv. and xvi. of alps and sanctuaries .)
12. 12.A PSALM OF MONTREAL.
13. 13.Works by the same Author.
14. 14.Footnotes:

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