Samuel Butler read On the Origin of Species soon after arriving in New Zealand in 1859, and this volume gathers what he wrote there: a dialogue on Darwin’s theory and his defence of it in the local press, the essay Lucubratio Ebria on machines and evolution, a note on The Tempest, and a comic piece on the English cricketers.
The seedbed of Erewhon and of Butler’s long quarrel with Darwinism, for readers of Victorian ideas. Download the free EPUB.