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When I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stockings, and who used to hobble about the street of our village with the help of a stick. He must have been getting on for eighty in the year 1807, earlier than which date I suppose I can hardly remember him, for I was born in 1802. A few white locks hung about his ears, his shoulders were bent and his knees feeble, but he was still hale, and was much respected in our little world of Paleham. His name was Pontifex.

His wife was said to be his master; I have been told she brought him a little money, but it cannot have been much. She was a tall, square-shouldered person (I have heard my father call her a Gothic woman) who had insisted on being married to Mr Pontifex when he was young and too good-natured to say nay to any woman who wooed him. The pair had lived not unhappily together, for Mr Pontifex's temper was easy and he soon learned to bow before his wife?s more stormy moods.

The Way of All Flesh

«Avant de raconter l'histoire du second voyage accompli par mon père dans le singulier pays dont il fit la découverte il y a trente ans, il me semble nécessaire de dire en quelques mots quelle fut son existence à partir du moment où il publia son livre, en 1872, jusqu'à sa mort, au commencement de l'été 1891. Et en passant j'expliquerai brièvement les causes qui l'empêchèrent de conserver auprès du public la faveur qu'il semblait avoir acquise dès ses débuts.»

Nouveaux voyages en Erewhon

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

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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.

Erewhon

L'auteure de l'Odyssée

Apologie du Démon - Il faut se souvenir que nous n'avons eu connaissance que d'un aspect de l'affaire. C'est Dieu qui a écrit tous les livres. Compensation - Si je meurs prématurément, au moins cela m'épargnera-t-il l'ennui de mon propre succès. Je suis l'enfant terrible de la littérature et de la science et si je ne puis pas, et je sais que je ne le puis pas, obtenir que les gros bonnets du monde littéraire et scientifique me donnent un shilling, je puis, et je sais que je le puis, lancer des pavés au sein de leur groupe. S. Butler.

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