Chapter XXVII

of this book.”

This second article was _Lucubratio Ebria_, and was sent by Butler from England to the editor of the _Press_ in 1865, with a letter from which this is an extract:

“I send you an article which you can give to FitzGerald or not, just as you think it most expedient—for him. Is not the subject worked out, and are not the Canterbury people tired of Darwinism? For me—is it an article to my credit? I do not send it to FitzGerald because I am sure he would put it into the paper. . . . I know the undue lenience which he lends to my performances, and believe you to be the sterner critic of the two. That there are some good things in it you will, I think, feel; but I am almost sure that considering _usque ad nauseam_ etc., you will think it had better not appear. . . . I think you and he will like that sentence: ‘There was a moral government of the world before man came into it.’ There is hardly a sentence in it written without deliberation; but I need hardly say that it was done upon tea, not upon whiskey . . .

“P.S. If you are in any doubt about the expediency of the article take it to M.

“P.P.S. Perhaps better take it to him anyhow.”

The preface to the 1901 edition of Erewhon contains some further

## particulars of the genesis of that work, and there are still further

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