Chapter II

, “How I wrote _Life and

Habit_.”

The first tentative sketch of the _Life and Habit_ theory occurs in the letter to Thomas William Gale Butler which is given post. This T. W. G. Butler was not related to Butler, they met first as art-students at Heatherley’s, and Butler used to speak of him as the most brilliant man he had ever known. He died many years ago. He was the writer of the “letter from a friend now in New Zealand,” from which a quotation is given in _Life and Habit_,