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Evolution, Old & New

by Samuel Butler

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  1. 1Epigraph
  2. 2Epigraph — Preface
  3. 3Chapter I — Statement of the Question. Current Opinion Adverse to T…
  4. 4Chapter II — The Teleology of Paley and the Theologians
  5. 5Chapter III — Impotence of Paley’s Conclusion. The Teleology of the…
  6. 6Chapter IV — Failure of the First Evolutionists to See Their Positi…
  7. 7Chapter V — The Teleological Evolution of Organism — The Philosophy…
  8. 8Chapter VI — Scheme of the Remainder of the Work. Historical Sketch…
  9. 9Chapter VII — Pre-Buffonian Evolution, and Some German Writers
  10. 10Chapter VIII — Buffon — Memoir
  11. 11Chapter IX — Buffon’s Method — The Ironical Character of His Work
  12. 12Chapter X — Supposed Fluctuations of Opinion — Causes or Means of t…
  13. 13Chapter XI — Buffon — Fuller Quotations
  14. 14Chapter XII — Sketch of Dr. Erasmus Darwin’s Life
  15. 15Chapter XIII — Philosophy of Dr. Erasmus Darwin
  16. 16Chapter XIV — Fuller Quotations From the ‘Zoonomia’
  17. 17Chapter XV — Memoir of Lamarck
  18. 18Chapter XVI — General Misconception Concerning Lamarck — His Philos…
  19. 19Chapter XVII — Summary of the ‘Philosophie Zoologique’
  20. 20Chapter XVIII — Mr. Patrick Matthew, MM. Étienne and Isidore Geoffr…
  21. 21Chapter XIX — Main Points of Agreement and of Difference Between th…
  22. 22Chapter XX — Natural Selection Considered as a Means of Modificatio…
  23. 23Chapter XXI — Mr. Darwin’s Defence of the Expression, Natural Selec…
  24. 24Chapter XXII — The Case of the Madeira Beetles as Illustrating the…
  25. 25Chapter I — Reviews of ‘Evolution, Old and New’
  26. 26Chapter II — Rome and Pantheism

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