Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? - An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited?, by William Platt Ball This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Are the Effects of Use and Disuse Inherited? An Examination of the View Held by Spencer and Darwin Author: William Platt Ball Release Date: August 26, 2008 [EBook #26438] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE *** Produced by Bryan Ness, Stephen Blundell and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This book was produced from scanned images of public domain material from the Google Print project.) NATURE SERIES ARE THE EFFECTS OF USE AND DISUSE INHERITED? AN EXAMINATION OF THE VIEW HELD BY SPENCER AND DARWIN BY WILLIAM PLATT BALL London MACMILLAN AND CO. AND NEW YORK 1890 The Right of Translation and Reproduction is Reserved Richard Clay and Sons, Limited, London and Bungay. [v] PREFACE. My warmest thanks are due to Mr. Francis Darwin, to Mr. E. B.