Note
Author's Preface to First Edition
Contents
Chapter I Introduction
Chapter II Mr. Herbert Spencer
Chapter III Mr. Herbert Spencer ( continued )
Chapter IV [52a] Mr. Romanes' "Mental Evolution in Animals"
Chapter V Statement of the Question at Issue
Chapter VI Statement of the Question at Issue ( continued )
Chapter VII ( Intercalated ) Mr. Spencer's "The Factors of Organic Evolution"
Chapter VIII Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm
Chapter IX Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm ( continued )
Chapter X The Attempt to Eliminate Mind
Chapter XI The Way of Escape
Chapter XII Why Darwin's Variations were Accidental
Chapter XIII Darwin's Claim to Descent with Modification
Chapter XIV Darwin and Descent with Modification ( continued )
Chapter XV The Excised "My's"
Chapter XVI Mr. Grant Allen's "Charles Darwin"
Chapter XVII Professor Ray Lankester and Lamarck
Chapter XVIII Per Contra
Chapter XIX Conclusion
Footnotes
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Jonathan Cape Eleven Gower Street, London
First Published
1887
Second Edition
1920
Re-issued
1922
TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE
ALFRED TAYLOR, Esq., &c.
WHOSE EXPERIMENTS AT CARSHALTON IN THE YEARS 1883 AND 1884 ESTABLISHED THAT PLANTS ALSO ARE ENDOWED WITH INTELLIGENTIAL AND VOLITIONAL FACULTIES THIS BOOK BEGUN AT HIS INSTIGATION IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED
