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

Author: Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902

Genre: Category: Science - Biology

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/4967

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## Summary

I SHALL perhaps best promote the acceptance of the two main points on which I have been insisting for some years past, I mean, the substantial identity between heredity and memory, and the reintroduction of design into organic development, by treating them as if they had something of that physical life with which they are so closely connected. Ideas are like plants and animals in this respect also, as in so many others, that they are more fully understood when their relations to other ideas of their time, and the history of their development are known and borne in mind. By development I do not merely mean their growth in the minds of those who first advanced them, but that larger developm...

## Chapters

- [Chapter 14](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/14/index.md)
- [Chapter 19](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/19/index.md)
- [Chapter 6](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/6/index.md)
- [Chapter 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Chapter 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Chapter 8](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/8/index.md)
- [Chapter 16](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/16/index.md)
- [Chapter 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Chapter 17](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/17/index.md)
- [Chapter 18](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/18/index.md)
- [Chapter 10](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/10/index.md)
- [Chapter 12](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/12/index.md)
- [Chapter 7](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/7/index.md)
- [Chapter 9](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/9/index.md)
- [Chapter 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Chapter 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/5/index.md)
- [Chapter 15](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/15/index.md)
- [Chapter 13](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/13/index.md)
- [Chapter 11](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/luck-or-cunning-as-the-main-means-of-organic-modification-4967/chapters/11/index.md)