24 Unconscious Memory 



whelming weight of the evidence in favour of structure and 

 habit being mainly due to memory. I accordingly gathered 

 as much as I could second-hand of what Lamarck had said, 

 reserving a study of his " Philosophic Zoologique " for 

 another occasion, and read as much about ants and bees 

 as I could find in readily accessible works. In a few days 

 I saw my way again ; and now, reading the " Origin of 

 Species " more closely, and I may say more sceptically, 

 the antagonism between Mr. Darwin and Lamarck became 

 fully apparent to me, and I saw how incoherent and 

 unworkable in practice the later view was in comparison 

 with the earlier. Then I read Mr. Darwin's answers to 

 miscellaneous objections, and was met, and this time 

 brought up, by the passage beginning " In the earlier 

 editions of this work," ^ &c., on which I wrote very severely 

 in " Life and Habit " ; - for I felt by this time that the 

 difference of opinion between us was radical, and that the 

 matter must be fought out according to the rules of the 

 game. After this I went tlu'ough the earlier part of my 

 book, and cut out the expressions which I had used in- 

 advertently, and which were inconsistent with a teleo- 

 logical view. This necessitated only verbal alterations ; 

 for, though I had not known it, the spirit of the book was 

 throughout teleological. 



I now saw that I had got my hands full, and abandoned 

 my intention of touching upon " Pangenesis," I took up 

 the words of Mr. Darwin quoted above, to the ehect that 

 it would be a serious error to ascribe the greater number 

 of instincts to transmitted habit. I wrote chapter xi. of 

 " Life and Habit," which is headed " Instincts as Inherited 

 Memory " ; I also wrote the four subsequent chapters, 

 " Instincts of Neuter Insects," " Lamarck and Mr. Darwin," 

 " Mr. Mivart and Mr. Darwin," and the concluding chapter, 

 all of them in the month of October and the early part of 

 November 1877, the complete book leaving the binder's 



^ Origin of Species, 6th ed., p. 171, 1876. 

 * Pp. 258-260. 



