Samuel Butler (1835 - 1902) was an iconoclastic English author of a variety of works. Two of his most famous works are the Utopian satire Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously. He is also known for examining Christian orthodoxy, substantive studies of evolutionary thought, studies of Italian art and works of literary history and criticism. Butler made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that remain in use to this day.
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.
