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The way of all flesh
by Samuel Butler
WHEN I was a small boy at the beginning of the century I remember an old man who wore knee-breeches and worsted stocking...
Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon (1835-1902) a memoir
by Henry Festing Jones
Samuel Butler was born on the 4th December, 1835, at the Rectory, Langar, near Bingham, in Nottinghamshire.
Life and Habit
by Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler
It will be our business in the following chapters to consider whether the unconsciousness, or quasi-unconsciousness, wit...
Samuel Butler
by G. D. H. (George Douglas Howard) Cole
In Samuel Butler's novel, The Way of All Flesh, is cited an essay which the "hero," Ernest Pontifex, is supposed to have...
Ex voto
by Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler
In the preface to "Alps and Sanctuaries" I apologised for passing over Varallo-Sesia, the most important of North Italia...
The fair haven
by Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler
The subject of this Memoir, and Author of the work which follows it, was born in Goodge Street, Tottenham Court Road, Lo...
Luck or cunning?
by Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler
I shall perhaps best promote the acceptance of the two main points on which I have been insisting for some years past, I...
The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
by Samuel Butler
We are like billiard balls in a game played by unskilful players, continually being nearly sent into a pocket, but hardl...
God the known and God the unknown
by Samuel Butler, Samuel Butler
MANKIND has ever been ready to discuss matters in the inverse ratio of their importance, so that the more closely a ques...