The fourth of Samuel Butler’s books on evolution asks whether living forms change chiefly through lucky accidents sifted by natural selection or through the cunning of organisms themselves, their effort, habit and inherited memory. He argues for cunning, crossing swords with Herbert Spencer, George Romanes and the Neo-Darwinians and warning against a mindless, mechanical view of the universe.
A sharp, witty dissent from Darwinism by one of the Victorian age’s great contrarians. Download the free EPUB.