Samet Buruea." By C. E. M. Jead.
Leonard Parsons, 43. 64.
This volume is one of the "Road-maker" series. We find it just little dificult to think of Samuel that secluded and critical: ironist, asa blazer of trails in the Mderness. Even Butler himself, who certainly never committed the sin of underrating himself, might have failed to see himself' among the Pathfinders.
We do not want to press too jar the difference between the eritical and the creative capacity, for, ike all vital things. they shade i to each other, so that creative literature is a criticism of life, and evi tical literature a creative _construction. Nevertheless, there is distinction, which may be thus indicated: the creator breaks into new regions, and the critic surveys what has been found. The critic may ike important discoveries of his own, and put the creator right when he shows signs of going wrong; but he is not the first that ever burst into the silent sea of truth knowledge. The critic is the administrator; he is not the pioneer. ake Butler's contribution to bioftogical speculation, the theory of unconscious memory put forward in "Lite and Habit." It is lof pure criticism. It is ere that it is new and valid; but it arose from Butler's criticism of Darwin and hig predecessors. Butler was; not a biologist at first hand; he was a student of biological literature, and, as such, Cully entitled to state views of what had been written.
The devout Darwinians indignant-lly denied him that right.
Butler accused them of setting up new obscurantism by never using! one word where ten would do—when of Imperial Defence provides the material for the account of the batties. Captain Carpenter, v.c., gives a personal account of the attack on. Zeebrugge. In addition there are: maps, specially prepared by the, War Office, showing all the historic aces, cemeteries, war memorials, There are also complete lists, of thave cemeteries and memorials snd how to reach them. Moreover, there is a full itinerary describing all the reads out of and around ores and what there is to see on them. be classed among the fishes" instead of saying "a tish," they turned on him furiously and said, "This is science, and you are a mere writer." Stil, though Butler now shows up so much better than his opponents, the creative naturalists, Buffon, Erasmus Darwin, La and "Charles Darwin, had to go. before nim, before he could begin. Butler [waa not a road maker, he was a roadmender, The present volume, well planned jand attractively written, deals with!
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