Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

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Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

by Samuel Butler

EN·~8 hours·24 chapters

Chapters

24 total
1

Transcribed from the 1922 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

0:05
2

Luck, or Cunning As the Main Means of Organic Modification?

0:34
3

Note

1:54
4

Author’s Preface to First Edition

5:00
5

Chapter I Introduction

29:50
6

Chapter II Mr. Herbert Spencer

26:08
7

Chapter III Mr. Herbert Spencer (continued)

19:36
8

Chapter IV Mr. Romanes’ “Mental Evolution in Animals”

32:56
9

Chapter V Statement of the Question at Issue

18:38
10

Chapter VI Statement of the Question at Issue (continued)

39:09

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Language

en

Duration

~8 hours (482K characters)

Release date

2004-01-01

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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