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diff --git a/1906-h/1906-h.htm b/1906-h/1906-h.htm index aefda36..9512152 100644 --- a/1906-h/1906-h.htm +++ b/1906-h/1906-h.htm @@ -1,15 +1,12 @@ -<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" -"http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"> -<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> +<!DOCTYPE html> +<html lang="en"> <head> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" /> -<meta http-equiv="Content-Style-Type" content="text/css" /> -<title>The Project Gutenberg eBook of Erewhon, by Samuel Butler</title> -<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" /> -<style type="text/css"> - -body { margin-left: 20%; - margin-right: 20%; +<meta charset="utf-8"><title>Erewhon | Project Gutenberg</title> +<link rel="coverpage" href="images/cover.jpg" > +<style> + +body { margin-left: 10%; + margin-right: 10%; text-align: justify; } h1, h2, h3, h4, h5 {text-align: center; font-style: normal; font-weight: @@ -67,31 +64,25 @@ a:hover {color:red} <div>*** START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 1906 ***</div> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/cover.jpg" width="462" height="700" alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/cover.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 462px; height: 700px"> </div> <h1>EREWHON</h1> -<h4>OR,<br /><br />OVER THE RANGE</h4> +<h4>OR,<br ><br >OVER THE RANGE</h4> <h2>by Samuel Butler</h2> -<blockquote><p>“Τοῦ γὰρ -εἰναι -δοκοῦντος -ἀγαθοῦ χάριν -πάντα -πράττουσι -πάντες.”—ARIST. <i>Pol</i>.</p> +<blockquote><p>“Τοῦ γὰρ εἰναι δοκοῦντος ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντες.”—ARIST. <i>Pol</i>.</p> <p>“There is no action save upon a balance of considerations.”—<i>Paraphrase</i>.</p> </blockquote> -<hr /> +<hr > <h2>Contents</h2> -<table summary="" style=""> +<table> <tr> <td> <a href="#pref01">PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION</a></td> @@ -102,7 +93,7 @@ a:hover {color:red} </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#pref03">PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION</a><br /><br /></td> +<td> <a href="#pref03">PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION</a><br ><br ></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -220,7 +211,7 @@ PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES</a></td> </tr> <tr> -<td> <a href="#chap29">CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION</a><br /><br /></td> +<td> <a href="#chap29">CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION</a><br ><br ></td> </tr> <tr> @@ -231,7 +222,7 @@ PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES</a></td> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="pref01"></a>PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION</h2> +<h2><a id="pref01"></a>PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION</h2> <p> The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a word of @@ -242,7 +233,7 @@ three syllables, all short—thus, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="pref02"></a>PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION</h2> +<h2><a id="pref02"></a>PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION</h2> <p> Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an unusually @@ -345,7 +336,7 @@ June 9, 1872 <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="pref03"></a>PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION</h2> +<h2><a id="pref03"></a>PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION</h2> <p> My publisher wishes me to say a few words about the genesis of the work, a @@ -369,7 +360,7 @@ such modifications as I found convenient. A second article on the same subject as the one just referred to appeared in the Press shortly after the first, but I have no copy. It treated Machines from a different point of view, and was the basis of pp. 270-274 of the present -edition of “Erewhon.”<a name="citation1"></a><a +edition of “Erewhon.”<a id="citation1"></a><a href="#footnote1"><sup>[1]</sup></a> This view ultimately led me to the theory I put forward in “Life and Habit,” published in November 1877. I have put a bare outline of this theory (which I believe to be quite sound) into the @@ -486,7 +477,7 @@ faults, is the better reading of the two. </p> <p> -SAMUEL BUTLER.<br /> +SAMUEL BUTLER.<br > August 7, 1901 </p> @@ -494,7 +485,7 @@ August 7, 1901 <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.<br />WASTE LANDS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap01"></a>CHAPTER I.<br >WASTE LANDS</h2> <p> If the reader will excuse me, I will say nothing of my antecedents, nor of the @@ -542,7 +533,7 @@ settlers for more than eight or nine years, having been previously uninhabited, save by a few tribes of savages who frequented the seaboard. The part known to Europeans consisted of a coast-line about eight hundred miles in length (affording three or four good harbours), and a tract of country extending -inland for a space varying from two to three hundred miles, until it a reached +inland for a space varying from two to three hundred miles, until it reached the offshoots of an exceedingly lofty range of mountains, which could be seen from far out upon the plains, and were covered with perpetual snow. The coast was perfectly well known both north and south of the tract to which I have @@ -700,7 +691,7 @@ main ranges. These thoughts filled my head, and I could not banish them. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.<br />IN THE WOOL-SHED</h2> +<h2><a id="chap02"></a>CHAPTER II.<br >IN THE WOOL-SHED</h2> <p> At last shearing came; and with the shearers there was an old native, whom they @@ -846,7 +837,7 @@ off, and we started on our journey, not very long after the summer solstice of <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.<br />UP THE RIVER</h2> +<h2><a id="chap03"></a>CHAPTER III.<br >UP THE RIVER</h2> <p> The first day we had an easy time, following up the great flats by the river @@ -1024,7 +1015,7 @@ the valley as hard as he could. He had left me. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.<br />THE SADDLE</h2> +<h2><a id="chap04"></a>CHAPTER IV.<br >THE SADDLE</h2> <p> I cooeyed to him, but he would not hear. I ran after him, but he had got too @@ -1301,7 +1292,7 @@ the name. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.<br />THE RIVER AND THE RANGE</h2> +<h2><a id="chap05"></a>CHAPTER V.<br >THE RIVER AND THE RANGE</h2> <p> My next business was to descend upon the river. I had lost sight of the pass @@ -1584,20 +1575,18 @@ I may say here that, since my return to England, I heard a friend playing some chords upon the organ which put me very forcibly in mind of the Erewhonian statues (for Erewhon is the name of the country upon which I was now entering). They rose most vividly to my recollection the moment my friend began. They are -as follows, and are by the greatest of all musicians:—<a -name="citation2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> +as follows, and are by the greatest of all musicians:—<a id="citation2"></a><a href="#footnote2"><sup>[2]</sup></a> </p> <div class="fig" style="width:100%;"> -<img src="images/illustration01.jpg" width="471" height="650" -alt="[Illustration]" /> +<img src="images/illustration01.jpg" alt="[Illustration]" style="width: 471px; height: 650px"> </div> </div><!--end chapter--> <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.<br />INTO EREWHON</h2> +<h2><a id="chap06"></a>CHAPTER VI.<br >INTO EREWHON</h2> <p> And now I found myself on a narrow path which followed a small watercourse. I @@ -1868,7 +1857,7 @@ spite of all their goodness. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.<br />FIRST IMPRESSIONS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap07"></a>CHAPTER VII.<br >FIRST IMPRESSIONS</h2> <p> We followed an Alpine path for some four miles, now hundreds of feet above a @@ -2093,7 +2082,7 @@ determine. He then left me alone. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.<br />IN PRISON</h2> +<h2><a id="chap08"></a>CHAPTER VIII.<br >IN PRISON</h2> <p> And now for the first time my courage completely failed me. It is enough to say @@ -2343,7 +2332,7 @@ has made a really wonderful recovery; you are sure to like him.” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.<br />TO THE METROPOLIS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap09"></a>CHAPTER IX.<br >TO THE METROPOLIS</h2> <p> With the above words the good man left the room before I had time to express my @@ -2716,7 +2705,7 @@ custom. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.<br />CURRENT OPINIONS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap10"></a>CHAPTER X.<br >CURRENT OPINIONS</h2> <p> This is what I gathered. That in that country if a man falls into ill health, @@ -3088,7 +3077,7 @@ industrious apprentice was a very nice person. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.<br />SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap11"></a>CHAPTER XI.<br >SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS</h2> <p> In Erewhon as in other countries there are some courts of justice that deal @@ -3347,7 +3336,7 @@ the country, than the general respect for law and order. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.<br />MALCONTENTS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap12"></a>CHAPTER XII.<br >MALCONTENTS</h2> <p> I confess that I felt rather unhappy when I got home, and thought more closely @@ -3613,7 +3602,7 @@ upon the attention of the reader. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.<br />THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH</h2> +<h2><a id="chap13"></a>CHAPTER XIII.<br >THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH</h2> <p> The Erewhonians regard death with less abhorrence than disease. If it is an @@ -3852,7 +3841,7 @@ years old, and died from the decay of nature. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.<br />MAHAINA</h2> +<h2><a id="chap14"></a>CHAPTER XIV.<br >MAHAINA</h2> <p> I continued my sojourn with the Nosnibors. In a few days Mr. Nosnibor had @@ -4006,7 +3995,7 @@ cupboard somewhere. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.<br />THE MUSICAL BANKS</h2> +<h2><a id="chap15"></a>CHAPTER XV.<br >THE MUSICAL BANKS</h2> <p> On my return to the drawing-room, I found that the Mahaina current had expended @@ -4433,7 +4422,7 @@ be more in harmony with both the heads and hearts of the people. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.<br />AROWHENA</h2> +<h2><a id="chap16"></a>CHAPTER XVI.<br >AROWHENA</h2> <p> The reader will perhaps have learned by this time a thing which I had myself @@ -4490,7 +4479,7 @@ those beautiful lines of Shakespeare’s— </p> <blockquote><p> -“There’s a divinity doth hedge a king,<br /> +“There’s a divinity doth hedge a king,<br > Rough hew him how we may;” </p> </blockquote> @@ -4714,7 +4703,7 @@ God. Mention but the word divinity, and our sense of the divine is clouded. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.<br />YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES</h2> +<h2><a id="chap17"></a>CHAPTER XVII.<br >YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES</h2> <p> In spite of all the to-do they make about their idols, and the temples they @@ -4957,7 +4946,7 @@ much disapprobation as he could show without being overtly rude. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.<br />BIRTH FORMULAE</h2> +<h2><a id="chap18"></a>CHAPTER XVIII.<br >BIRTH FORMULAE</h2> <p> I heard what follows not from Arowhena, but from Mr. Nosnibor and some of the @@ -5140,7 +5129,7 @@ will form the following chapter. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.<br />THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN</h2> +<h2><a id="chap19"></a>CHAPTER XIX.<br >THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN</h2> <p> The Erewhonians say that we are drawn through life backwards; or again, that we @@ -5387,8 +5376,7 @@ kingdom, fly—fly—if you can remember the advice—to the haven of your present and immediate duty, taking shelter incessantly in the work which you have in hand. This much you may perhaps recall; and this, if you will imprint it deeply upon your every faculty, will be most likely to bring you -safely and honourably home through the trials that are before you.”<a -name="citation3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> +safely and honourably home through the trials that are before you.”<a id="citation3"></a><a href="#footnote3"><sup>[3]</sup></a> </p> <p> @@ -5413,7 +5401,7 @@ to choose. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.<br />WHAT THEY MEAN BY IT</h2> +<h2><a id="chap20"></a>CHAPTER XX.<br >WHAT THEY MEAN BY IT</h2> <p> I have given the above mythology at some length, but it is only a small part of @@ -5483,7 +5471,7 @@ I am quite sure that if this narrative should ever fall into Erewhonian hands, it will be said that what I have written about the relations between parents and children being seldom satisfactory is an infamous perversion of facts, and that in truth there are few young people who do not feel happier in the society -of their nearest relations<a name="citation4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> +of their nearest relations<a id="citation4"></a><a href="#footnote4"><sup>[4]</sup></a> than in any other. Mr. Nosnibor would be sure to say this. Yet I cannot refrain from expressing an opinion that he would be a good deal embarrassed if his deceased parents were to reappear and propose to pay him a six months’ @@ -5672,7 +5660,7 @@ is enough to show the utter perversion of the Erewhonian mind. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.<br />THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON</h2> +<h2><a id="chap21"></a>CHAPTER XXI.<br >THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON</h2> <p> I had now been a visitor with the Nosnibors for some five or six months, and @@ -5954,7 +5942,7 @@ conditions. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.<br />THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON—Continued</h2> +<h2><a id="chap22"></a>CHAPTER XXII.<br >THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON—Continued</h2> <p> Of genius they make no account, for they say that every one is a genius, more @@ -6311,7 +6299,7 @@ have thought it best to insert my translation here. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.<br />THE BOOK OF THE MACHINES</h2> +<h2><a id="chap23"></a>CHAPTER XXIII.<br >THE BOOK OF THE MACHINES</h2> <p> The writer commences:—“There was a time, when the earth was to all @@ -6423,7 +6411,7 @@ up process everywhere? </p> <p> -“Even a potato<a name="citation5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a> in a +“Even a potato<a id="citation5"></a><a href="#footnote5"><sup>[5]</sup></a> in a dark cellar has a certain low cunning about him which serves him in excellent stead. He knows perfectly well what he wants and how to get it. He sees the light coming from the cellar window and sends his shoots crawling straight @@ -6559,7 +6547,7 @@ fellow-creatures.’” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.<br />THE MACHINES—continued</h2> +<h2><a id="chap24"></a>CHAPTER XXIV.<br >THE MACHINES—continued</h2> <p> “But other questions come upon us. What is a man’s eye but a @@ -6878,7 +6866,7 @@ insisting on it so frequently.” <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.<br />THE MACHINES—concluded</h2> +<h2><a id="chap25"></a>CHAPTER XXV.<br >THE MACHINES—concluded</h2> <p> Here followed a very long and untranslatable digression about the different @@ -7132,8 +7120,7 @@ railway carriage; let him see how those improvements are being selected for perpetuity which contain provision against the emergencies that may arise to harass the machines, and then let him think of a hundred thousand years, and the accumulated progress which they will bring unless man can be awakened to a -sense of his situation, and of the doom which he is preparing for himself.<a -name="citation6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a> +sense of his situation, and of the doom which he is preparing for himself.<a id="citation6"></a><a href="#footnote6"><sup>[6]</sup></a> </p> <p> @@ -7344,7 +7331,7 @@ would be beyond my present scope to describe. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.<br />THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PROPHET CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF +<h2><a id="chap26"></a>CHAPTER XXVI.<br >THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PROPHET CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS</h2> <p> @@ -7642,7 +7629,7 @@ soon as he got home. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.<br />THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS +<h2><a id="chap27"></a>CHAPTER XXVII.<br >THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES</h2> <p> @@ -7935,13 +7922,13 @@ the response as nearly as I can translate it was as follows:- </p> <blockquote><p> -“He who sins aught<br /> -Sins more than he ought;<br /> -But he who sins nought<br /> -Has much to be taught.<br /> -Beat or be beaten,<br /> -Eat or be eaten,<br /> -Be killed or kill;<br /> +“He who sins aught<br > +Sins more than he ought;<br > +But he who sins nought<br > +Has much to be taught.<br > +Beat or be beaten,<br > +Eat or be eaten,<br > +Be killed or kill;<br > Choose which you will.” </p> </blockquote> @@ -7978,7 +7965,7 @@ uncorrected by instinct is as bad as instinct uncorrected by reason. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.<br />ESCAPE</h2> +<h2><a id="chap28"></a>CHAPTER XXVIII.<br >ESCAPE</h2> <p> Though busily engaged in translating the extracts given in the last five @@ -8360,7 +8347,7 @@ vessel. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.<br />CONCLUSION</h2> +<h2><a id="chap29"></a>CHAPTER XXIX.<br >CONCLUSION</h2> <p> The ship was the <i>Principe Umberto</i>, bound from Callao to Genoa; she had @@ -8667,44 +8654,44 @@ until I can organise a committee. <div class="chapter"> -<h2><a name="chap30"></a>Footnotes</h2> +<h2><a id="chap30"></a>Footnotes</h2> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote1"></a><a href="#citation1">[1]</a> The last part of Chapter +<a id="footnote1"></a><a href="#citation1">[1]</a> The last part of Chapter XXIII in this Gutenberg eText.—DP. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote2"></a><a href="#citation2">[2]</a> See Handel’s +<a id="footnote2"></a><a href="#citation2">[2]</a> See Handel’s compositions for the harpsichord, published by Litolf, p. 78. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote3"></a><a href="#citation3">[3]</a> The myth above alluded to +<a id="footnote3"></a><a href="#citation3">[3]</a> The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names, and considerable modifications. I have taken the liberty of referring to the story as familiar to ourselves. </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote4"></a><a href="#citation4">[4]</a> What a <i>safe</i> word +<a id="footnote4"></a><a href="#citation4">[4]</a> What a <i>safe</i> word “relation” is; how little it predicates! yet it has overgrown “kinsman.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote5"></a><a href="#citation5">[5]</a> The root alluded to is not +<a id="footnote5"></a><a href="#citation5">[5]</a> The root alluded to is not the potato of our own gardens, but a plant so near akin to it that I have ventured to translate it thus. Apropos of its intelligence, had the writer known Butler he would probably have said— </p> <p class="poem"> -“He knows what’s what, and that’s as high,<br /> +“He knows what’s what, and that’s as high,<br > As metaphysic wit can fly.” </p> <p class="footnote"> -<a name="footnote6"></a><a href="#citation6">[6]</a> Since my return to +<a id="footnote6"></a><a href="#citation6">[6]</a> Since my return to England, I have been told that those who are conversant about machines use many terms concerning them which show that their vitality is here recognised, and that a collection of expressions in use among those who attend on steam engines |