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Note. By R. A. Streatfeild 



Introduction. By Professor Marcus Hartog 



Author's Preface .... 



Chapter I. Introduction— General ignorance on the sub 

 ject of evolution at the time the " Origin of Species ■ 

 was published in 1859 . . . . 



Chapter II. How I came to write " Life and Habit," and 

 the circumstances of its completion 



Chapter III. How I came to write "Evolution, Old and 

 New"— Mr. Darwin's "brief but imperfect" sketch of 

 the opinions of the writers on evolution who had pre- 

 ceded him— The reception which "Evolution, Old and 

 New," met with . . ... 26 



Chapter IV. The manner in which Mr. Darwin met 



"Evolution, Old and New" . . . . 38 



Chapter V. Introduction to Professor Hering's Lecture . 52 

 Chapter VI. Professor Ewald Hering " On Memory " . 63 

 Chapter VII. Introduction 'to a translation of the chap- 

 ter upon instinct in Von Hartmann's " Philosophy of 

 the Unconscious " . . ... 87 



Chapter VIII. Translation of the chapter on "The 

 Unconscious in Instinct," from Von Hartmann's " Philo- 

 sophy of the Unconscious " . . . . 92 



Chapter IX. Remarks upon Von Hartmann's position in 



regard to instinct . . ... 137 



Chapter X. Recapitulation and statement of an objection 146 



Chapter XI. On Cycles . . . . . 156 



Chapter XII. Refutation — Memory at once a promoter 



and a disturber of uniformity of action and structure 161 



Chapter XIII. Conclusion . . . . 173 



