Luck

Or, Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

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The title of the book asks whether luck or cunning is the main means of organic modification. The dedication says the experiments of the late Alfred Taylor at Carshalton in the years 1883 and 1884 established that plants also are endowed with intelligential and volitional faculties. The note says that this second edition is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886.

The text says that Mr. Mivart gave no overt aid, but pointed to the source from which help might come, by expressly saying that his most important objection to Neo-Darwinism had no force against Lamarck. The writer says he turned to Lamarck and soon saw that the theory on which he had been insisting in "Life and Habit" was in reality an easy corollary on his system. The text says that the Neo-Darwinistic doctrine of natural selection, as Von Hartmann justly observes, involves an essentially mechanical mindless conception of the universe.

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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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Author: Samuel Butler
Pages: 168
Language: English
Genre: Biology
Formats: PDF, EPUB, Read online