Erewhon Revisited

Erewhon Revisited, by Samuel Butler
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Title: Erewhon Revisited Author: Samuel Butler Release Date: March 20, 2005 Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-646-US (US-ASCII) [eBook #1971]
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Transcribed from the 1916 A. C. Fifield edition by David Price, email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk
EREWHON REVISITED TWENTY YEARS LATER Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by his Son
I forget when, but not very long after I had published “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 supposed to exist in Erewhon, and given the apparently miraculous ascent of a remarkable stranger into the heavens with an earthly bride—what would be the effect on the people generally?
There was no use in trying to solve this problem before, say, twenty years should have given time for Erewhonian developments to assume something like permanent shape, and in 1892 I was too busy with books now published to be able to attend to Erewhon. It ...