English novelist and critic Samuel Butler is best known for his semi-autobiographical book The Way of All Flesh, which was first published in 1964 under the title Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh, and for his satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872), which was published posthumously in 1903 after significant revisions. Both books are still in print after their original releases. In additional research, he looked at Italian art, evolution theory, and Christian orthodoxy. He also translated the Iliad and Odyssey into language that is still used today. Butler was born in the rectory in the Nottinghamshire village of Langar on December 4, 1835. Rev was his father. Thomas Butler is the son of Dr. Samuel Butler, who was the bishop of Lichfield after serving as the headmaster of Shrewsbury School. Dr. Butler came from a family of yeomen and was the son of a trader, but his academic prowess was noticed early on, and he was sent to Cambridge and Rugby, where he excelled. Thomas, his only son, wanted to join the Navy but gave in to pressure from his father and joined the Church of England instead, where he had a mediocre career compared to his father's.
1. On certain acquired habits
2. Conscious and unconscious knowers - the law and grace
3. Application of foregoing chapters to certain habits acquired after birth which are commonly considered instinctive
4. Application of the foregoing principles to actions and habits acquired before birth
5. Personal identity
6. Personal identity-continued
7. Our subordinate personalities
8. Application of the foregoing chapters-the assimilation of outside matter
9. On the abeyance of memory
10. What we should expect to find if differentiations of structure and instinct are mainly due to memory
11. Instinct as inherited memory
12. Instincts of neuter insects
13. Lamarck and Mr Darwin
14. Mr Mivart and Mr Darwin
15. Concluding remarks.
