Chapter Xv. The Musical Banks : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XV: THE MUSICAL BANKS On my return to the drawing-room, I found that the Mahaina current had expended itself. The ladies were just putting away their work and preparing to go out. I asked them where they were going. They answered with a certain air...
Chapter Xix. The World Of The Unborn : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XIX: THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN The Erewhonians say that we are drawn through life backwards; or again, that we go onwards into the future as into a dark corridor. Time walks beside us and flings back shutters as we advance; but the light thus given...
Chapter Xxii. The Colleges Of Unreason Continued : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXII: THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON--CONTINUED Of genius they make no account, for they say that every one is a genius, more or less. No one is so physically sound that no part of him will be even a little unsound, and no one is so diseased but that some...
Chapter Vii. First Impressions : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER VII: FIRST IMPRESSIONS We followed an Alpine path for some four miles, now hundreds of feet above a brawling stream which descended from the glaciers, and now nearly alongside it. The morning was cold and somewhat foggy, for the autumn had made gre...
Chapter Xxv. The Machines Concluded : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXV: THE MACHINES--CONCLUDED Here followed a very long and untranslatable digression about the different races and families of the then existing machines. The writer attempted to support his theory by pointing out the similarities existing between...
Chapter Ix. To The Metropolis : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER IX: TO THE METROPOLIS With the above words the good man left the room before I had time to express my astonishment at hearing such extraordinary language from the lips of one who seemed to be a reputable member of society. "Embezzle a large sum...
Chapter Xxix. Conclusion : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXIX: CONCLUSION The ship was the Principe Umberto, bound from Callao to Genoa; she had carried a number of emigrants to Rio, had gone thence to Callao, where she had taken in a cargo of guano, and was now on her way home. The captain was a cert...
Chapter Ii. In The Wool Shed : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER II: IN THE WOOL-SHED At last shearing came; and with the shearers there was an old native, whom they had nicknamed Chowbok--though, I believe, his real name was Kahabuka. He was a sort of chief of the natives, could speak a little English, and w...
Chapter X. Current Opinions : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER X: CURRENT OPINIONS This is what I gathered. That in that country if a man falls into ill health, or catches any disorder, or fails bodily in any way before he is seventy years old, he is tried before a jury of his countrymen, and if convicted is held...
Chapter Xiii. The Views Of The Erewhonians : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XIII: THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH The Erewhonians regard death with less abhorrence than disease. If it is an offence at all, it is one beyond the reach of the law, which is therefore silent on the subject; but they insist th...
Chapter Xx. What They Mean : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XX: WHAT THEY MEAN BY IT I have given the above mythology at some length, but it is only a small part of what they have upon the subject. My first feeling on reading it was that any amount of folly on the part of the unborn in coming here w...
Chapter Vi. Into Erewhon : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER VI: INTO EREWHON And now I found myself on a narrow path which followed a small watercourse. I was too glad to have an easy track for my flight, to lay hold of the full significance of its existence. The thought, however, soon presented itself to me...
Chapter Xvii. Ydgrun And The Ydgrunites : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XVII: YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES In spite of all the to-do they make about their idols, and the temples they build, and the priests and priestesses whom they support, I could never think that their professed religion was more than skin-deep; but they...
Chapter Xvi. Arowhena : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XVI: AROWHENA The reader will perhaps have learned by this time a thing which I had myself suspected before I had been twenty-four hours in Mr. Nosnibor's house--I mean, that though the Nosnibors showed me every attention, I could not cordially like...
Chapter I. Waste Lands : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER I: WASTE LANDS If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the circumstances which led me to leave my native country; the narrative would be tedious to him and painful to myself. Suffice it, that when I left home it w...
Preface To The Revised Edition : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION My publisher wishes me to say a few words about the genesis of the work, a revised and enlarged edition of which he is herewith laying before the public. I therefore place on record as much as I can remember on this head after...
Preface To Second Edition : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], 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...
Chapter Viii. In Prison : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER VIII: IN PRISON And now for the first time my courage completely failed me. It is enough to say that I was penniless, and a prisoner in a foreign country, where I had no friend, nor any knowledge of the customs or language of the people. I w...
Chapter Xxiv. The Machines Continued : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXIV: THE MACHINES--CONTINUED "But other questions come upon us. What is a man's eye but a machine for the little creature that sits behind in his brain to look through? A dead eye is nearly as good as a living one for some time after the man is dead...
Chapter Iii. Up The River : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER III: UP THE RIVER The first day we had an easy time, following up the great flats by the river side, which had already been twice burned, so that there was no dense undergrowth to check us, though the ground was often rough, and we had to go a good...
Preface To The First Edition : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short--thus, E-re-whon.
Chapter Xxiii. The Book Of The Machines : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXIII: THE BOOK OF THE MACHINES The writer commences:-- "There was a time, when the earth was to all appearance utterly destitute both of animal and vegetable life, and when according to the opinion of our best philosophers it was simply a hot round...
Chapter Xxi. The Colleges Of Unreason : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXI: THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON I had now been a visitor with the Nosnibors for some five or six months, and though I had frequently proposed to leave them and take apartments of my own, they would not hear of my doing so. I suppose they thought I...
Chapter Xxvi. The Views Of An Erewhoni : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXVI: THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PROPHET CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS It will be seen from the foregoing chapters that the Erewhonians are a meek and long-suffering people, easily led by the nose, and quick to offer up common sense at the shrine...
Chapter Xxvii. The Views Of An Erewhoni : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXVII: THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES Let me leave this unhappy story, and return to the course of events among the Erewhonians at large. No matter how many laws they passed increasing the severity...
Chapter Xi. Some Erewhonian Trials : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XI: SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS In Erewhon as in other countries there are some courts of justice that deal with special subjects. Misfortune generally, as I have above explained, is considered more or less criminal, but it admits of classificati...
Chapter Iv. The Saddle : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER IV: THE SADDLE I cooeyed to him, but he would not hear. I ran after him, but he had got too good a start. Then I sat down on a stone and thought the matter carefully over. It was plain that Chowbok had designedly attempted to keep me from going up...
Chapter Xviii. Birth Formulae : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XVIII: BIRTH FORMULAE I heard what follows not from Arowhena, but from Mr. Nosnibor and some of the gentlemen who occasionally dined at the house: they told me that the Erewhonians believe in pre-existence; and not only this (of which I will write...
Chapter Xiv. Mahaina : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XIV: MAHAINA I continued my sojourn with the Nosnibors. In a few days Mr. Nosnibor had recovered from his flogging, and was looking forward with glee to the fact that the next would be the last. I did not think that there seemed any occasion even...
Chapter V. The River And The Range : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER V: THE RIVER AND THE RANGE My next business was to descend upon the river. I had lost sight of the pass which I had seen from the saddle, but had made such notes of it that I could not fail to find it. I was bruised and stiff, and my boots had begun...
Chapter Xxviii. Escape : * "Erewhon", by Samuel Butler, [1872], CHAPTER XXVIII: ESCAPE Though busily engaged in translating the extracts given in the last five chapters, I was also laying matters in train for my escape with Arowhena. And indeed it was high time, for I received an intimation from one of the cashiers...
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