title: Learning in Action: Insects
author: Philip Steele
description: They're colorful and camouflaged, dangerous and disgusting! See and hear the strangest and most fascinating creatures on the planet like never before in the exciting new title in the popular Learning in Action series. Learning in Action: Insects will have curious kids buzzing from the moment they set eyes on its cover. With the touch of a button, kids can bring a firefly to life--with flapping wings, glowing tail, and nighttime sound effects. There's plenty of action on every spread, with cool sound effects, intricate pop-ups, and fact-filled lift-the-flaps. Journey inside a busy and buzzy honeycomb and meet the queen! Witness a monarch butterfly emerge from a 3-D chrysalis, and (GASP!) observe an enormous cockroach leap from the center of the book in a startling and stunning 3-D display. Talk about a book with buzz!
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  # Life and Habit
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Samuel Butler
  
  
  This page copyright © 2002 Munsey's.
  
  
  http://www.munseys.com
  
  PREFACE
  
  
  AUTHOR'S PREFACE
  
  
  CHAPTER I—ON CERTAIN ACQUIRED HABITS
  
  
  CHAPTER II—CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS KNOWERS—THE
  
  
  LAW AND GRACE
  
  
  CHAPTER III—APPLICATION OF FOREGOING CHAPTERS TO
  
  
  CERTAIN HABITS ACQUIRED AFTER BIRTH WHICH ARE COMMONLY CONSIDERED
  
  
  INSTINCTIVE.
  
  
  CHAPTER IV—APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING PRINCIPLES
  
  
  TO ACTIONS AND HABITS ACQUIRED BEFORE BIRTH
  
  
  CHAPTER V—PERSONAL IDENTITY
  
  
  CHAPTER VI—PERSONAL IDENTITY—(Continued)
  
  
  CHAPTER VII—OUR SUBORDINATE PERSONALITIES
  
  
  CHAPTER VIII—APPLICATION OF THE FOREGOING
  
  
  CHAPTERS—THE ASSIMILATION OF OUTSIDE MATTER
  
  
  CHAPTER IX—ON THE ABEYANCE OF MEMORY
  
  
  CHAPTER X—WHAT WE SHOULD EXPECT TO FIND IF
  
  
  DIFFERENTIATIONS OF STRUCTURE AND INSTINCT ARE MAINLY DUE TO MEMORY
  
  
  CHAPTER XI—INSTINCT AS INHERITED MEMORY
  
  
  CHAPTER XII—INSTINCTS OF NEUTER INSECTS
  
  
  CHAPTER XIII—LAMARCK AN