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Life and Habit

by Samuel Butler

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Samuel Butler first brought out this study of heredity and instinct in 1878, and this edition of 1910 adds a preface by R. A. Streatfeild. Butler argues that heredity and memory are one and the same thing. Streatfeild notes that it was the earliest and most important of his writings on evolution, leading to Evolution Old and New, Unconscious Memory and Luck or Cunning. He adds that Butler was largely ignored in his lifetime and had gained wide recognition by 1910. The book is dedicated to the barrister Charles Paine Pauli.

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an English author, painter, and iconoclast who spent formative years sheep farming in New Zealand. A relentless critic of Victorian religion and morality, he is best known for the satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh.

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Pages
159
Language
English
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Biology
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