Selections from Previous Works / With Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals, and a Psalm of Montreal

This collection assembles revised extracts from earlier writings alongside new remarks addressing a contemporary scientific work, beginning with a preface that criticizes a misstatement in another author's citations and reflects on scientific authority. Selections revisit arguments about heredity and the role of memory as a central factor in biological change, offering theoretical explanations for phenomena such as reversion and sterility. Interspersed are satirical essays that invert social conventions, imagining a society that punishes ill health while tending criminals, and examining how moral judgments and professional roles shape public treatment of illness and wrongdoing. The tone mixes polemic, theoretical exposition, and social satire to revisit and amplify earlier ideas.