PREFACE.

AUTHOR'S PREFACE.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS.

CHAPTER II. CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS THE LAW AND GRACE.

CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN

CHAPTER IV. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES TO ACTIONS AND HABITS ACQUIRED BEFORE BIRTH.

CHAPTER V. PERSONAL IDENTITY.

CHAPTER VI. PERSONAL IDENTITY ( continued ).

CHAPTER VII. OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES.

CHAPTER VIII. APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING CHAPTERS THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTER.

CHAPTER IX. ON THE ABEYANCE OF MEMORY.

CHAPTER X. WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND IF DIFFERENTIATIONS OF

CHAPTER XI. INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY.

CHAPTER XII. INSTINCTS OF NEUTER INSECTS.

CHAPTER XIII. LAMARCK AND MR. DARWIN.

CHAPTER XIV. MR. MIVART AND MR. DARWIN.

CHAPTER XV. CONCLUDING REMARKS.

APPENDIX AUTHOR'S ADDENDA I See Page 13

FOOTNOTES

Transcribed from the 1910 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.lorg

Life and Habit

By
Samuel Butler

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Jonathan Cape
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FIRST PUBLISHED 1878

SECOND EDITION 1878

NEW EDITION WITH ADDENDA AND
PREFACE BY R. A. STREATFEILD 1910

REPRINTED 1924

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IN ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF HIS INVALUABLE
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