class="smcap">Author’s Preface to First Edition

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I.

Introduction

13

II.

Mr. Herbert Spencer

28

III.

Mr. Herbert Spencer (continued)

42

IV.

Mr. Romanes’ “Mental Evolution in Animals”

52

V.

Statement of the Question at Issue

70

VI.

Statement of the Question at Issue (continued)

80

VII.

Mr. Spencer’s “The Factors of Organic Evolution”

100

VIII.

Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm

112

IX.

Property, Common Sense, and Protoplasm (continued)

125

X.

The Attempt to Eliminate Mind

135

XI.

The Way of Escape

147

XII.

Why Darwin’s Variations were Accidental

156

XIII.

Darwin’s Claim to Descent with Modification

168

XIV.

Darwin and Descent with Modification (continued)

177

XV.

The Excised “My’s”

202

XVI.

Mr. Grant Allen’s “Charles Darwin”

211

XVII.

Professor Ray Lankester and Lamarck

225

XVIII.

Per Contra

239

XIX.

Conclusion

251

Chapter I
Introduction

I shall perhaps best promote the acceptance of the two main points on which I have been insisting for some years past, I mean, the substantial identity between heredity and memory, and the reintroduction of design into organic development, by treating them as if they had something of that physical life with which they are so closely connected.  Ideas are like plants and animals in this respect also, as in so many others, that they are more fully understood when their relations to other ideas of their time, and the history of their development are known and borne in mind.  By development I do not merely mean their growth in the minds of those who first advanced them, but that larger development which consists in their subsequent good or evil fortunes—in their reception, favourable or otherwise, by those to whom they were