Geleitwort »Rechts unten« stehen auf der Titelseite des Blick durch die Wirtschaft unter den drei Sternchen in der Regei drei Zitate, Bemerkungen, Aphorismen, Weisheiten und Dummheiten. Hier bleibt ojt der erste Blick hangén. »Rechts unten« wurde zum Titel eines schmalen Buches, das seit zwei...
N O T E Sámuel butler began to write The Way of Ali Flesh about the year 1872, and was engaged upon it intermittently until 1884. It is therefore, to a great extent, contemporaneous with Life and Habit, and may be taken as a practical illustration of the theory of heredity embodied in that book....
NOTE This selection from Sámuel Butler's Essays is a reprint, with omissions and corrections, of The Humour of Homer, and Other Essays, published in 1913, with an Introduction by R. A. Streatfeild. 'The Deadlock in Darwinism,' which Butler contributed to the Universal Review in April, May, and...
INTRODUCTION
Hardly more than once or twice in a lifetime does it happen that a reader encounters a notable book at the moment when he is most ready to be influenced by it. A rare turn of fortune put The Way of All Flesh into my hands at the exactly appropriate time.
On a Sunday morning in my...
PREFACE
I FORGET when, but not very long after I had publîshed Erewhon in 1872, it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhon would probably take after Mr. Higgs, as I suppose I may now call him, had made his escape in the balloon with Arowhena. Given a people in the conditions...