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Luck or Cunning? by Samuel Butler
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organised in correspondence with the external ones; and so conscious
memory passes into unconscious or organic memory. At the same time,
a new and still more complex order of experiences is thus rendered
appreciable; the relations they present occupy the memory in place
of the simpler one; they become gradually organised; and, like the
previous ones, are succeeded by others more complex still (p. 563).

Just as we saw that the establishment of those compound reflex
actions which we call instincts is comprehensible on the principle
that inner relations are, by perpetual repetition, organised into
correspondence with outer relations; so the establishment of those
consolidated, those indissoluble, those instinctive mental relations
constituting our ideas of Space and Time, is comprehensible on the
same principle (p. 579).


In a book published a few weeks before Mr. Spencer's letter appeared
{29a} I had said that though Mr. Spencer at times closely approached
Professor Hering and "Life and Habit," he had nevertheless nowhere
shown that he considered memory and heredity to be parts of the same
story and parcel of one another. In his letter to the Athenaeum,
indeed, he does not profess to have upheld this view, except "by
implications;" nor yet, though in the course of the six or seven
years that had elapsed since "Life and Habit" was published I had
brought out more than one book to support my earlier one, had he
said anything during those years to lead me to suppose that I was
trespassing upon ground already taken by himself. Nor, again, had
he said anything which enabled me to appeal to his authority--which
I should have been only too glad to do; at last, however, he wrote,
as I have said, to the Athenaeum a letter which, indeed, made no
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