I have italicised the last sentence, to show that Butler was more or
less conscious of its irreconcilability with much of his most
characteristic doctrine. Again, in the closing chapter, Butler
writes (p. 275):-


"We should endeavour to see the so-called inorganic as living in
respect of the qualities it has in common with the organic, rather
than the organic as non-living in respect of the qualities it has in
common with the inorganic."


We conclude our survey of this book by mentioning the literary
controversial part chiefly to be found in Chapter IV, but cropping up
elsewhere. It refers to interpolations made in the authorised
translation of Krause's "Life of Erasmus Darwin." Only one side is
presented; and we are not called upon, here or elsewhere, to discuss
the merits of the question.


"LUCK, OR CUNNING, as the Main Means of Organic Modification? an
Attempt to throw Additional Light upon the late Mr. Charles Darwin's
Theory of Natural Selection" (1887), completes the series of
biological books. This is mainly a book of strenuous polemic. It
brings out still more forcibly the Hering-Butler doctrine of
continued personality from generation to generation, and of the
working of unconscious memory throughout; and points out that, while
this is implicit in much of the teaching of Herbert Spencer, Romanes,