The Shrewsbury Edition of the Works of Samuel Butler: Life and habitJ. Cape, 1923 |
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able accumulation accustomed acquired action admit amoeba Animals and Plants appear assimilated become believe birth Bishop Butler body breathing called caterpillar cause cells chicken commonly conscious continued creature difficulty due to memory embryo ence experience fact familiar feel fowls frog grain hatched hence heredity ideas impregnate ovum impression inasmuch individual inherited habit insects intelligence kind knowledge Lamarck larva less living manner matter mind Mivart modification moth natural selection neuter bees nevertheless observe offspring organism Origin of Species ourselves Pangenesis parents past existences perfect performance perhaps personal identity plants and animals practice present primordial cell probably proboscis protoplasm queen bee race reason recollection regards remember repeated reproduction resemblance Ribot SAMUEL BUTLER seems single spermatozoon spinal cord stage strobila structure and instincts sufficient suppose tendency things tion uncon unconscious unfamiliar unless variations vary volition whole words