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Professor Hering's philosophy of the unconscious is of extreme simplicity. He rests upon a fact of daily and hourly experience, namely, that practice makes things easy that were once difficult, and often results in their being done without any consciousness of effort. But if the repetition of an act tends ultimately, under certain circumstances, to its being done unconsciously, so also is the fact of an intricate and difficult action being done unconsciously an argument that it must have been done repeatedly already.

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• Amazon Sales Rank: #6264875 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 180 pages

About the Author
Samuel Butler (1835-1902) is best known for his utopian satire Erewhon, his posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh, and his translations of Homer. His family background made a career in the Church inevitable, but, while serving a low-income parish in London, he began to question his faith. He lived in New Zealand for five years, and later in life spent time in Italy, where he developed a theory that Homer’s Odyssey was written by a young Sicilian woman and advanced this theory in his translations and prefaces.