Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification

by Samuel Butler

Transcribed from the 1922 Jonathan Cape edition by David Price, email ccx074@pglaf.org

Luck, or Cunning
As the Main Means of
Organic Modification?

Jonathan Cape
Eleven Gower Street, London

First Published	1887
Second Edition	1920
Re-issued	1922

TO THE MEMORY OF
THE LATE

ALFRED TAYLOR, Esq., &c.

WHOSE EXPERIMENTS AT CARSHALTON
IN THE YEARS 1883 AND 1884
ESTABLISHED THAT PLANTS ALSO ARE ENDOWED WITH
INTELLIGENTIAL AND VOLITIONAL FACULTIES
THIS BOOK
BEGUN AT HIS INSTIGATION
IS GRATEFULLY AND AFFECTIONATELY INSCRIBED

Note

This second edition of Luck, or Cunning? is a reprint of the first edition, dated 1887, but actually published in November, 1886. The only alterations of any consequence are in the Index, which has been enlarged by the incorporation of several entries made by the author in a copy of the book which came into my possession on the death of his literary executor, Mr. R. A. Streatfeild. I thank Mr. G. W. Webb, of the University Library, Cambridge, for the care and skill with which he has made the necessary alterations; it was a troublesome job because owing to the re-setting, the pagination was no longer the same.