Contents
A Companion to the Studies of
Samuel Butlers The Way of All Flesh (1903)
Contents Introduction Chapter OneThe Way of All Flesh (1903):
a summary
Chapter TwoThe Way of All Flesh as a Lamarckian
novel of inheritance 2.1Lamarckian essence in the novel: change,
will and environment 2.2Heredity: the oneness of personality between
parents and offspring 2.2.1Heredity in The Way of All Flesh 2.2.2Ernests parents—Theobald and Christina 2.2.3Ernests childhood in a Godfearing family 2.2.4Alethea and Overton
Chapter ThreeAinsi va toute evolution—Butlers utilitarian taste 3.1Butler and God 3.2Vice and virtue 3.3Butler and utilitarianism 3.4Butler and money
Chapter FourSelfhelp and freewill: the reconstruction
of personal identity 4.1Unconscious Memory and Cunning as two limbs of
man—Ernests growth 4.2Luck or cunning? Butlers ideal gentleman 4.3“Sensible teaching” in The Way of All Flesh 4.3.1On childhood 4.3.2About Dr. Skinners school at Roughborough 4.3.3Ernests Cambridge years 4.4Samuel Butler on education Conclusion Bibliography Selected index and glossary of names Appendix Acknowledgements