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Life and Habit

by Samuel Butler

EN·~8 hours·19 chapters

Chapters

19 total
1

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

0:42
2

PREFACE.

5:38
3

AUTHOR’S PREFACE.

1:36
4

CHAPTER I. ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS.

30:00
5

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

36:54
6

CHAPTER III. APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED INSTINCTIVE.

24:46
7

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

29:35
8

CHAPTER V. PERSONAL IDENTITY.

21:05
9

CHAPTER VI. PERSONAL IDENTITY—(continued).

20:42
10

CHAPTER VII. OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES.

33:21

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Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (483K characters)

Release date

2004-07-01

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

About the author

Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

1835–1902

Best known for the satirical novel Erewhon and the posthumously published The Way of All Flesh, this sharp-minded Victorian writer loved challenging accepted ideas. His work ranges from fiction and essays to lively arguments about religion, evolution, and society.

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