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Life and Habit

By Samuel Butler

2019-11-22 22:37:35

Though his most popular works were novels, the British author Samuel Butler was also deeply engaged in the scientific community of his time. Originally, he was a strong supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution, but after digging into the researc ... Read more
Though his most popular works were novels, the British author Samuel Butler was also deeply engaged in the scientific community of his time. Originally, he was a strong supporter of Darwin's theory of evolution, but after digging into the research, Butler identified several problems with Darwin's model. Butler's objections are laid out in the essays collected in Life and Habit. Less

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File size202.033 KB
Print pages324
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2010-08-26
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9781-442944657
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Samuel Butler
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Samuel Butler was the iconoclastic English author of the Utopian satirical novel Erewhon and the semi-autobiographical Bildungsroman The Way of All Flesh, published posthumously in 1903. Both have rem...

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