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Unconscious Memory

Unconscious Memory

Butler, Samuel

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General Fiction

ISBN10: 154473431X
ISBN13: 9781544734316
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Mar 26 2017
Pages: 188
Weight: 0.57
Height: 0.40 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
Butler tells (Life and Habit, p. 33) that he sometimes hoped that this book would be regarded as a valuable adjunct to Darwinism. He was bitterly disappointed in the event, for the book, as a whole, was received by professional biologists as a gigantic joke - a joke, moreover, not in the best possible taste. True, its central ideas, largely those of Lamarck, had been presented by Hering in 1870 (as Butler found shortly after his publication); they had been favourably received, developed by Haeckel, expounded and praised by Ray Lankester. Coming from Butler, they met with contumely, even from such men as Romanes, who, as Butler had no difficulty in proving, were unconsciously inspired by the same ideas - Nur mit ein bischen ander'n Wörter. It is easy, looking back, to see why Life and Habit so missed its mark.

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