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THE first edition of Mr. Murphy's work was reriewed in NATURE, vol. i. pp. 288 and 315, a little more than nine years ago, and on reading the article we find little or nothing in the remarks and criticisms then made which require modification on account of subsequent discoveries. The present work is, however, very largely new, about one-third of the matter in the first edition, which treated of physical questions, being omitted, and replaced by a series of new chapters on biological subjects. It is to these new chapters that we shall mainly confine our present notice.
Habit and Intelligence: a Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind.
By Joseph John Murphy. Second Edition, illustrated, thoroughly revised, and mostly rewritten. (London: Macmillan and Co., 1879.)
Life and Habit.
By Samuel Butler. (London: Trübner and Co., 1878.)
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WALLACE, A. Habit and Intelligence: a Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind Life and Habit . Nature 19, 477–480 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/019477a0
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