Preface
Contents
Biographical Statement
I Lord, What is Man? Man i
II Elementary Morality The Foundations of Morality i
III The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit Prefatory Note
IV Memory and Design Clergymen and Chickens
V Vibrations Contributions to Evolution
VI Mind and Matter Motion
VII On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books Thought and Word i
VIII Handel and Music Handel and Beethoven
IX A Painter's Views on Painting The Old Masters and Their Pupils
X The Position of a Homo Unius Libri Trubner and Myself
XI Cash and Credit The Unseen World
XII The Enfant Terrible of Literature Myself
XIII Unprofessional Sermons Righteousness
XIV Higgledy-Piggledy Preface to Vol. II
XV Titles and Subjects Titles
XVI Written Sketches Literary Sketch-Books
XVII Material for a Projected Sequel to Alps and Sanctuaries Mrs. Dowe on Alps and Sanctuaries
XVIII Material for Erewhon Revisited
XIX Truth and Convenience Opposites
XX First Principles The Baselessness of Our Ideas
XXI Rebelliousness God and Life
XXII Reconciliation Religion
XXIII Death Fore-knowledge of Death
XXIV The Life of the World to Come Posthumous Life i
XXV Poems Prefatory Note
Footnotes
Photograph of Samuel Butler
Author of “Erewhon”
Selections arranged and edited by Henry Festing Jones
With photogravure portrait by Emery Walker from a photograph taken by Alfred Cathie in 1898
London A. C. Fifield, 13 Clifford’s Inn, E.C. 1912
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