Selections from Previous Works - and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals

Selections from Previous Works, by Samuel Butler
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Title: Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
Author: Samuel Butler
Release Date: October 24, 2006 Language: English
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Transcribed from the 1884 Trübner & Co. edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org
SELECTIONS FROM PREVIOUS WORKS
WITH REMARKS ON MR. G. J. ROMANES’ “MENTAL EVOLUTION IN ANIMALS”
AND
A PSALM OF MONTREAL
BY
SAMUEL BUTLER
“The course of true science, like that of true love, never did run smooth.” PROFESSOR TYNDALL, Pall Mall Gazette, Oct 30, 1883. (OP. 7) LONDON TRÜBNER & CO., LUDGATE HILL 1884 [All rights reserved ] Ballantyne Press BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO .
EDINBURGH AND LONDON
p. ii
PREFACE.
I delayed these pages some weeks in order to give Mr. Romanes an opportunity of explaining his statement that Canon Kingsley wrote about instinct and inherited memory in Nature, Jan. 18, 1867. [iii] I wrote to the Athenæum (Jan. 26, 1884) and pointed out that Nature did not begin to appear till nearly ...