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Erewhon est essentiellement un recueil d'essais humoristiques et satiriques reliés par une fiction romanesque.
 C'est donc une utopie; plus exactement : un voyage dans un pays imaginaire ; et par là - par sa forme -, il descend en ligne directe des voyages de gulliver de swift, qui eux-mêmes descendent non moins directement des histoires comiques (voyages aux etats de la lune et du soleil) de cyrano de bergerac.  et cependant c'est une aventure que butler nous raconte, son aventure à lui-même : mais c'est une aventure intellectuelle, toute morale et philosophique.
 Il a vécu et souffert, comme tout le monde; mais au contraire de la plupart des hommes, il n'a pas vécu et souffert en vain.  blessé, il s'est réfugié en lui-même ; il s'est regardé vivre et souffrir, et, s'étant ainsi séparé des hommes pendant tout le temps qu'a duré sa méditation, il a pu, en revenant à eux, les voir avec d'autres yeux, et découvrir l'humanité et la société comme son héros découvre ce peuple bizarre, jusque-là ignoré du reste de la terre : le peuple d'erewhon.
 C'est l'aventure de quelques autres esprits, et notamment de pascal.  mais pascal est chrétien et a pour guide l'eglise, tandis que butler est panthéiste et croit en l'evolution.  valéry larbaud.

Erewhon

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For many years a link in the chain of Samuel Butler's biological works has been missing. "Unconscious Memory" was originally published thirty years ago, but for fully half that period it has been out of print, owing to the destruction of a large number of the unbound sheets in a fire at the premises of the printers some years ago. The present reprint comes, I think, at a peculiarly fortunate moment, since the attention of the general public has of late been drawn to Butler's biological theories in a marked manner by several distinguished men of science, notably by Dr. Francis Darwin, who, in his presidential address to the British Association in 1908, quoted from the translation of Hering's address on "Memory as a Universal Function of Original Matter, " which Butler incorporated into "Unconscious Memory, " and spoke in the highest terms of Butler himself. It is not necessary for me to do more than refer to the changed attitude of scientific authorities with regard to Butler and his theories, since Professor Marcus Hartog has most kindly consented to contribute an introduction to the present edition of "Unconscious Memory, " summarising Butler's views upon biology, and defining his position in the world of science.

Unconscious Memory

Salades de riz - Occasion

Détruisons les machines

Crumbles salés et sucrés

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 was with the intention of going to some new colony, and either finding, or even perhaps purchasing, waste crown land suitable for cattle or sheep farming, by which means I thought that I could better my fortunes more rapidly than in England.

It will be seen that I did not succeed in my design, and that however much I may have met with that was new and strange, I have been unable to reap any pecuniary advantage.

It is true, I imagine myself to have made a discovery which, if I can be the first to profit by it, will bring me a recompense beyond all money computation, and secure me a position such as has not been attained by more than some fifteen or sixteen persons, since the creation of the universe. But to this end I must possess myself of a considerable sum of money: neither do I know how to get it, except by interesting the public in my story, and inducing the charitable to come forward and assist me. With this hope I now publish my adventures; but I do so with great reluctance, for I fear that my story will be doubted unless I tell the whole of it; and yet I dare not do so, lest others with more means than mine should get the start of me. I prefer the risk of being doubted to that of being anticipated, and have therefore concealed my destination on leaving England, as also the point from which I began my more serious and difficult journey.

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