38 . LUCK, OR CUNNING? 



90uld not have found my consequences startling if they 

 had already been insisted upon for many years by one 

 of the best-known writers of the day. 



The reviewer of " Evolution Old and New " in the 

 Saturday Beview (March 31, 1 879), of whom all I can 

 venture to say is that he or she is a person whose 

 name carries weight in matters connected with biology, 

 though he (for brevity) was in the humour for seeing 

 everything objectionable in me that could be seen, 

 still saw no Mr. Spencer in me. He said — " Mr. 

 Butler's own particular contribution to the terminology 

 of Evolution is the phrase two or three times repeated 

 with some emphasis " (I repeated it not two or three 

 times only, but whenever and wherever I could venture 

 to do so without wearying the reader beyond endur- 

 ance) " oneness of personality between parents and 

 offspring." The writer proceeded to reprobate this in 

 language upon which a Huxley could hardly improve, 

 but as he declares himself unable to discover what it 

 means, it may be presumed that the idea of continued 

 personality between successive generations was new to 

 him. 



, When Dr. Francis Darwin called on me a day or 

 two before " Life and Habit " went to the press^ he 

 said the theory which had pleased him more than any 

 he had seen for some time was one which referred all 

 life to memory ; * he doubtless intended " which re- 

 ferred all the phenomena of heredity to memory." 

 He then mentioned Professor Eay Lankester's article 

 in Nature, of which I had not heard, but he said 



> * See "Unconscious Memory,'' pp. 33, 34. 



