churnable

• Either say that a chrysalis becomes a butterfly because it is the thing that it is, and, being that kind of thing, must act in such and such a manner and in such a manner only, so that the act of one generation has no more to do with the act of the next than the fact of cream being churned into butter in a dairy one day has to do with other cream being churnable into butter in the following week -- either say this or else develop some mental condition -- which I have no doubt you will be very well able to do if you feel the want of it -- in which you can make out a case for saying that oxygen and hydrogen on being brought together, and cream on being churned, are in some way acquainted with, and mindful of, action taken by other cream, and other oxygen and hydrogen on past occasions. " —  Selections from Previous Works and Remarks on Romanes' Mental Evolution in Animals
• a chrysalis becomes a butterfly because it is the thing that it is, and, being that kind of thing, must act in such and such a manner and in such a manner only, so that the act of one generation has no more to do with the act of the next than the fact of cream being churned into butter in a dairy one day has to do with other cream being churnable into butter in the following week -- either say this, or else develop some mental condition -- which I have no doubt you will be very well able to do if you feel the want of it -- in which you can make out —  Unconscious Memory

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