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Erewhon : Or, Over the Range,' and Perceived That a New Satirist Had Arisen — a Man Who, Like All True Satirists, Was an Idealist As Well, £R£WHO 3 1822 01105 1000 ^aTbrar^ M^Mirrr of CAUfOtNIA illlill 3 1822 01105 1000 /< rr f. Re-issue of the Works of the late Samuel Butler Author of " Erewhon," " The Way of All Flesh," etc. Mr. FiriELD hag pleasure in announcing he has taken over the publication of the entire worlci (save one) of the late Samuel Butler, novelist, philosopher, scientist, satirist and classicist; "in his own department," says Mr. Bernard Shaw, "the greatest English writer of the latter half of the 19th century." "The Way of All Flesh" and "Erewhon " which have been out of print for some time are now reprinted, and all the other works with one exception are now offered at more popular prices. The Way of All Flesh. A Novel. New Edition. 6s. Erewhon. i ith, Revised Edition. 3rd Impression. 2S. 6d. nett. Erewhon Revisited. 2nd Impression, 340 pages. 2s. 6d. nett. (A few copies of the original edition, gilt top, 6s.) Essays on Life, Art and Science. 340 pages. 2s. 6d. nett. (A few copies of the original edition, gilt top, 6s.) The Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino. Profusely illustrated by Charles Gogin, H. F. Jones and the Author. Pott 410, cloth gilt. I OS. 6d. The Fair Haven. 5 s. nett. Life and Habit. An essay after a completer view of Evolution. 2nd edition. 5 s. nett. Evolution Old and New. A comparison of the theories of Buftbn, Erasmus Darwin and Lamarck, with that of Charles Darwin. 5s. Luck or Cunning, as the main means of organic modification. The Authoress of the Odyssey, who and what she was, when and where she wrote, etc. The Iliad of Homer, rendered into English prose. The Odyssey, rendered into English prose. Shakespeare's Sonnets, with notes and original text. Ex Voto. An account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Varallo-Sesia. Selections from Butler's Works. London : A. C. Fifield, 44 Fleet Street, E.G. New and Forthcoming Books. Anarchism. By Dr. Paul Eltzbacher, translated by S. T. Byington. 330 pages. Cloth extra, 6s. 6d. nett. A careful and unbiassed «tudy of the anarchist doctrines of Godwin, Proudhon, Stirner, Bakunin, Kropotkin, Tucker and Tolstoy, with extracts from their works, and portraits of all save Stirner. This is perhaps the best exposition of anarchism yet made. The Fabian Socialist Series. An authoritative popu- lar library of socialist thought, by the most prominent members of the Fabian Society. 6d. each nett, postage id. ^ cloth, gilt top, post free Is. 2d. I. Socialism and Religion. 2. Socialism and Agriculture. 3. Socialism and Individualism. 4. The Basis and Policy of Socialism. 5* {^" ^p^H') Driving Capital out of the Country, by Bernard Shaw. On Cambrian and Cumbrian Hills. By Henry S. Salt. Fcp. 8vo, cloth, gilt top. 3s. 6d. nett. A study of Snowdonia and the Fells, written from intimate experience, but from the point of view of a mountain lover rather than a rock climber. A delightful pocket companion for the hills. The Autobiography of a Super-Tramp. By W. H. Davies, w^ith 8-page Preface by G. Bernard Shaw. 6s. In this book Mr. Davies, whose poetic genius was recently discovered, tells the frank unvarnished story of his life as a tramp in England, the United States, and Canada. Mr. G. Bernard Shaw when sending the manuscript to the publisher wrote, " I recommend this most remarkable autobiography of a super-tramp to your special attention." Ernest Crosby : A Valuation and a Tribute. By Leonard D. Abbott, w^ith photo. Is. nett, postage id. Social Reformers Series. A new series of short biographical expositions of Pioneers of Social Reform. 6d. nett ; and in \ cloth, is. nett, postages id. and 2d. I. Robert Owen : Pioneer of Social Movements. By Joseph Clayton. 2. Henry George and his Gospel. By Lieut.-Col. D. C. Pedder. [In May.) London : A. C. Fifield, 44 Fleet Street, E.C. EREWHON ; " It is not wonderful that such a man as Butler should be the author of * Erewhon/ a shrewd and biting satire on modern life and thought—the best ' of its kind since Gulliver's Travels.' . To lash the age, to ridicule vain pretension, to expose hypocrisy, to deride humbug in education, politics, and religion, are tasks beyond most men's powers but occasionally, very occasionally, a bit of genuine satire secures for itself more than a passing nod of recognition. * Erewhon,' I think, is such a satire." —Augustine Birrell, in The Speaker. — EREWHON OR OVER THE RANGE BY SAMUEL BUTLER author of •life and habit," "the authoress of the odyssey," " Shakespeare's sonnets reconsidered," AND other works NEW AND REVISED EDITION " Tov yap flvai Sokovvtos dyadov X^P'-^ navTa irpaTTOvfft Travres." —Arist. Fol. " There is no action save upon a balance of considerations." Paraphrase. LONDON A. C. FIFIELD, 44 FLEET STREET, E.G. 1908 Popular Reprint from \oth, Revised Edition Third Impression^ April 1908 All rights reserved Printed by Ballantvne, Hanson <5r» Co. At the Ballantyne Press, Edinburgh PREFACE TO FIRST EDITION The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus, £-re-wh6n. PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an unusually large edition " of " Erewhon in a very short time, I have taken the opportunity of a second edition to make some necessary corrections, and to add a few passages where it struck me that they would be appro- priately introduced ; the passages are few, and it is my fixed intention never to touch the work again. I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in reference to "The Coming Race," to the success of which book " Erewhon " has been very generally set down as due. This is a mistake, though a perfectly natural one. The fact is that " Erewhon " was finished, with the exception of the last twenty pages and a sentence or two in- serted from time to time here and there through- out the book, before the first advertisement of "The Coming Race" appeared. A friend having called my attention to one of the first of these advertisements, and suggesting that it probably referred to a work of similar character to my own, " I took " Erewhon to a well-known firm of pub- lishers on the ist of May 1871, and left it in their hands for consideration. I then went abroad, and Preface on learning that the pubHshers alluded to declined the MS., I let it alone for six or seven months, and, being in an out-of-the-way part of Italy, never saw a single review of "The Coming Race," nor a copy of the work. On my return, I purposely avoided looking into it until I had sent back my last revises to the printer. Then 1 had much pleasure in read- ing it, but was indeed surprised at the many little points of similarity between the two books, in spite of their entire independence of one another. 1 regret that reviewers have in some cases been inclined to treat the chapters on Machines as an attempt to reduce Mr. Darwin's theory to an ab- surdity. Nothing could be further from my inten- tion, and few things would be more distasteful to me than any attempt to laugh at Mr. Darwin ; but I must own that I have myself to thank for the misconception, for I felt sure that my intention would be missed, but preferred not to weaken the chapters by explanation, and knew very well that Mr. Darwin's theory would take no harm. The only question in my mind was how far / could afford to be misrepresented as laughing at that for which I have the most profound admiration. I am surprised, however, that the book at which such an example of the specious misuse of analogy would seem most naturally levelled should have occurred to no reviewer ; neither shall I mention the name of the book here, though I should fancy that the hint given will suffice. 1 have been held by some whose opinions I re- To Second Edition spect to have denied men's responsibility for their actions. He who does this is an enemy who de- serves no quarter. I should have imagined that I had been sufficiently explicit, but have made a few- additions to the chapter on Malcontents, which will, I think, serve to render further mistake impossible. An anonymous correspondent (by the hand- writing presumably a clergyman) tells me that in quoting from the Latin grammar I should at any rate have done so correctly, and that I should have written "agricolas" instead of "agricolae." He added something about any boy in the fourth form, &c., &c., which I shall not quote, but which made me very uncomfortable. It may be said that I must have misquoted from design, from ignorance, or by a slip of the pen ; but surely in these days it will be recognised as harsh to assign limits to the all- embracing boundlessness of truth, and it will be more reasonably assumed that each of the three possible causes of misquotation must have had its share in the apparent blunder. The art of writing things that shall sound right and yet be wrong has made so many reputations, and affords comfort to such a large number of readers, that I could not venture to neglect it ; the Latin grammar, however, is a subject on which some of the younger mem- bers of the community feel strongly, so I have now written " agricolas." 1 have also parted with the word " infortuniam " (though not without regret), but have not dared to meddle with other similar inaccuracies.
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