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If such remarks as the above hold good at all, they do so with the words "personal identity." The least reflection will show that personal identity in any sort of strictness is an impossibility. The expression is one of the many ways in which we are obliged to scamp our thoughts through pressure of other business which pays us better. For surely all reasonable people will feel that an infant an hour before birth, when in the eye of the law he has no existence, and could not be called a peer for another sixty minutes, though his father were a peer, and already dead. ... Read more

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This particular design may appear sometimes, but not always, nor often. Thus I think that the particular design which St. Matthew had in view whilst he was writing the history of the Resurrection, was to attest the faithful performance of Christ's promise to his disciples to go before them into Galilee; because he alone, except Mark, who seems to have taken it from him, has recorded this promise, and he alone has confined his narrative to that single appearance to the disciples which fulfilled it. It was the preconcerted, the great and most public manifestation of our Lord's person. ... Read more

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Professor Hering's philosophy of the unconscious is of extreme simplicity. He rests upon a fact of daily and hourly experience, namely, that practice makes things easy that were once difficult, and often results in their being done without any consciousness of effort. But if the repetition of an act tends ultimately, under certain circumstances, to its being done unconsciously, so also is the fact of an intricate and difficult action being done unconsciously an argument that it must have been done repeatedly already. ... Read more

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In brief, there is nothing in life of which there are not germs, and, so to speak, harmonics in death, and nothing in death of which germs and harmonics may not be found in life. Each emphasizes what the other passes over most lightly--each carries to its extreme conceivable development that which in the other is only sketched in by a faint suggestion--but neither has any feature rigorously special to itself. Granted that death is a greater new departure in an organism's life, than any since that congeries of births and deaths to which the name embryonic stages is commonly given, still it is a new departure of the same essential character as any other-- that is to say, though there be much new there is much, not to say more, old along with it. We shrink from it as from any other change to the unknown, and also perhaps from an instinctive sense that the fear of death is a sine qua non for physical and moral progress, but the fear is like all else in life, a substantial thing which, if its foundations be dug about, is found to rest on a superstitious basis. ... Read more

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This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery. Originally published as Erewhon revisited twenty years later, both by the original discoverer of the country and by his sonDownload Description
It was Panky, not Hanky, who had given him the Musical Bank money. Panky was the greater humbug of the two, for he would humbug even himself--a thing, by the way, not very hard to do; and yet he was the less successful humbug, for he could humbug no one who was worth humbugging--not for long. ... Read more

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very good and still relevant book
The book deals with Higgs' return to Erewhon. Some unpleasant surprises are in store for him, place is entirely unrecognizable due to new religion - sunchildism. Higgs, the Sunchild, finds it hard to beleive how his sayings got so corrupted and is unable to do anything about it. Declaration that he is the Sunchild only brings his life in danger, since professors of Music Banks are not going to let go new lucrative businees just like that.Fascinating book, dealing with rise of new religion out of one "miracle" (i.e. unexplainable event such as Higgs escape in a baloon) account of which grew out of proportion every year. ... Read more

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This volume is the first complete, critical, and fully annotated edition of the first volume of the "Complete Note-Books of Samuel Butler," 19th-century satirist and author of "The Way of All Flesh" and "Erewhon." ... Read more

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A Workmanlike Biography, But Uninspired
Samuel Butler wrote one great book ("The Way of All Flesh"), one good one ("Erewhon"), and numerous minor ones, including translations of the "Iliad" and the "Odyssey". The problem with this book is that it dedicates roughly equal amounts of time to each of these.

The first half of the book is the stronger, discussing Butler's family life (much of which was incorporated into "The Way of All Flesh," a wonderful study of a dysfunctional familty) and the five years he spent running a sheep station in New Zealand. The reader comes away with a sense of the man.

The second half is simply tedious, focusing on Butler's fights with various critics over his later works and his relationships with three men with whom he was close. I found none of this to be interesting, and think other readerrs are likely to reach the same conclusion.

Prof. Raby has been thorough in his research, leaving no stone unturned. Unfortunately, he seems to have felt compelled to discuss each and every stone, rather than focusing on "The Way of All Flesh."

A typical scholarly work. ... Read more