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Excerpt from Habit and Intelligence: A Series of Essays on the Laws of Life and Mind Ou the other hand, chapters have been inserted on the Facts of Variation, on the Effect of Change of Conditions, and on Mimicry, Colour, and Sexual Selection. These are mostly abstracted from the enormous mass of detail noted in Darwin's works and I hope that they may be not only serviceable in illustrating the reasonings of this work, but useful in themselves as constituting an accurate 'and readable summary of interesting and important facts. The following chapters are also altogether new, and are the most original in the work. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.