Erewhon, or, Over the range / by Samuel Butler.

  • Butler, Samuel, 1835-1902.
Date:
1923
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    and Habit published in November 1877. I have put a bare outline of this theory (which I believe to be quite sound) into the mouth of an Erewhonian philosopher in Chapter XXVII. of this book. In 1865 I rewrote and enlarged u Darwin among the Machines ” for the Reasoner, a paper published in London by Mr. G. J. Holyoake. It appeared July i, 1865, under the heading, a The Mechanical Creation and can be seen in the British Museum. I again rewrote and enlarged it, till it assumed the form in which it appeared in the first edition of u Erewhon. The next part of u Erewhon that I wrote was the u World of the Unborn f a preliminary form of which was sent to Mr. Holyoake's paper, but as I cannot find it among those copies of the Reasoner that are in the British Museum, I conclude that it was not accepted. I have, however, rather a strong fancy that it appeared in some London paper of the same character as the Reasoner, not very long after July 1, 1865, but I have no copy. I also wrote about this time the substance of what ultimately became the Musical Banks, and the trial of a man for being in a consumption. These four de¬ tached papers were, I believe, all that was written of “Erewhon before 1870. Behveen 1865 and 1870 I wrote hardly anything, being hopeful of attaining that success as a painter which it has not been vouchsafed