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In 1886 Butler published his last book on evolution, Luck or Cunning
as the Main Means of Organic Modification? His other contributions
to the subject are some essays, written for the Examiner in 1879,
"God the Known and God the Unknown," which were re-published by Mr.
Fifield in 1909, and the articles "The Deadlock in Darwinism" which
appeared in the Universal Review in 1890 and are contained in this
volume; some further notes on evolution will be found in The Note-
Books of Samuel Butler (1912).
It was while he was writing Life and Habit that I first met him.
For several years he had been in the habit of spending six or eight
weeks of the summer in Italy and the Canton Ticino, generally making
Faido his headquarters. Many a page of his books was written while
resting by the fountain of some subalpine village or waiting in the
shade of the chestnuts till the light came so that he could continue
a sketch. Every year he returned home by a different route, and
thus gradually became acquainted with every part of the Canton and
North Italy.


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