<p>Samuel Butler's 'Luck, or Cunning, as the Main Means of Organic Modification' is a provocative and contentious work that challenges the Darwinian orthodoxy of natural selection with the alternative proposition that life evolves more through a process akin to intelligence or design than through mere chance. Butler, in his perspicacious prose, propounds a thoughtful critique intertwined with a polemical literary style, seeking to engage in the s...