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Life and Habit
Samuel Butler and Richard Alexander Streatfeild
Samuel Butler argued that instinct is just habit grown so old the body has forgotten learning it. With wit and mischief he pushes the idea from acquired habits to unconscious memory and the strange cleverness of the growing embryo. A provocative Victorian meditation on evolution and memory. Rethink what your own body already knows.
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25 chapters
- 1Life and Habit
- 2PREFACE.
- 3AUTHOR’S PREFACE.
- 4CONTENTS.
- 5CHAPTER I. ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS.
- 6CHAPTER II. CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS—THE LAW AND GRACE.
- 7CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED INSTINCTIVE.
- 8CHAPTER IV. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES TO ACTIONS AND HABITS ACQUIRED BEFORE BIRTH.
- 9CHAPTER V. PERSONAL IDENTITY.
- 10CHAPTER VI. PERSONAL IDENTITY—(continued).
- 11CHAPTER VII. OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES.
- 12CHAPTER VIII. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS—THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTER.
- 13CHAPTER IX. ON THE ABEYANCE OF MEMORY.
- 14CHAPTER X. WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND IF DIFFERENTIATIONS OF STRUCTURE AND INSTINCT ARE MAINLY DUE TO MEMORY.
- 15CHAPTER XI. INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY.
- 16CHAPTER XII. INSTINCTS OF NEUTER INSECTS.
- 17CHAPTER XIII. LAMARCK AND MR. DARWIN.
- 18CHAPTER XIV. MR. MIVART AND MR. DARWIN.
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