塞缪尔·巴特勒 众生之路 的研究

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