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712:, Butler's studies on the evidences for Christianity, his works on evolutionary thought, or in his miscellaneous other writings, a consistent theme runs through, stemming largely from his personal struggle against the stifling of his own nature by his parents, which led him to seek more general principles of growth, development, and purpose: "What concerned him was to establish his nature, his aspirations, and their fulfillment upon a philosophic basis, to identify them with the nature, the aspirations, the fulfillment of all humanity – and, more than that, with the fulfillment of the universe.... His struggle became generalized, symbolic, tremendous." 410:, but kept the remaining land surrounding the mansion. His aunt died in 1880 and his father's death in 1886 resolved his financial problems for the last 16 years of his own life. The land at Whitehall was sold for housing development; he laid out and named four roads – Bishop and Canon Streets after his grandfather's and father's clerical titles, Clifford Street after his London home, and Alfred Street in gratitude to his clerk. When in the 1870s his old Shrewsbury School proposed to relocate to a site at Whitehall, Butler publicly opposed it and the school ultimately moved elsewhere. 2362: 57: 2309: 278: 2328: 182: 483:
merely an outlet for his "intense same-sex desire". Sussman's theory calls Butler's assumption of "bachelorhood" merely a means to retain middle-class respectability in the absence of matrimony; he observes that there is no evidence of Butler's having any "genital contact with other men", but alleges that the "temptations of overstepping the line strained his close male relationships."
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farm and undertook to finance Pauli's study of law by paying him a regular sum, which Butler continued to do long after the friendship had cooled, until Butler had spent all his savings. On Pauli's death in 1892, Butler was shocked to learn that Pauli had benefited from similar arrangements with other men and had died wealthy, but without leaving Butler anything in his will.
498:, the two men saw each other daily until Butler's death in 1902, collaborating on music and writing projects in the daytime, and attending concerts and theatres in the evenings; they also frequently toured Italy and other favourite parts of Europe together. After Butler's death, Jones edited Butler's notebooks for publication and published his own biography of him in 1919. 238:"never liked me, nor I him; from my earliest recollections I can call to mind no time when I did not fear him and dislike him.... I have never passed a day without thinking of him many times over as the man who was sure to be against me." Under his parents' influence, he was set on course to follow his father into the priesthood. 715:
The form that this search took was principally philosophical and – given the interests of the day – biological: "Satirist, novelist, artist, and critic that he was, he was primarily a philosopher," and in particular, a philosopher who looked for biological foundations for his work: "His biology was a
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Butler, though strongly anti-Darwinian (that is, anti-natural selection and anti-Charles Darwin) is not anti-evolutionist. He professes, indeed, to be very much of an evolutionist, and in particular one who has taken it upon his shoulders to reinstate Buffon and Erasmus Darwin, and, as a follower of
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His first significant male friendship was with the young Charles Pauli, son of a German businessman in London, whom Butler met in New Zealand. They returned to England together in 1864 and took neighbouring apartments in Clifford's Inn. Butler had made a large profit from the sale of his New Zealand
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ind and pattern as the explanatory principles, which, above all, required investigation, were pushed out of biological thinking in the later evolutionary theories, which were developed in the mid-nineteenth century by Darwin, Huxley, etc. There were still some naughty boys, like Samuel Butler, who
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Butler's sexuality has been the subject of academic speculation and debate. Butler never married, although for years he made regular visits to a woman, Lucie Dumas. Herbert Sussman, having arrived at the conclusion that Butler was homosexual, opined that Butler's sexual association with Dumas was
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Samuel Butler's relations with his parents, especially with his father, were largely antagonistic. His education began at home and included frequent beatings, as was not uncommon at the time. Samuel wrote later that his parents were "brutal and stupid by nature". He later recorded that his father
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In 1839 his grandfather Dr. Butler had left Samuel property at Whitehall in Abbey Foregate, Shrewsbury, so long as he survived his own father and his aunt, Dr. Butler's daughter Harriet Lloyd. While at Cambridge in 1857 he sold the Whitehall mansion and six acres to his cousin
358:. It compares human evolution to machine evolution, prophesying that machines would eventually replace humans in the supremacy of the earth: "In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race". The letter raises many of the themes now debated by proponents of the 505:. Both Butler and Jones wept when they saw him off at the railway station in early 1895, and Butler subsequently wrote an emotional poem, "In Memoriam H. R. F.", instructing his literary agent to offer it for publication to several leading English magazines. However, once the 849:
said that mind could not be ignored in this way – but they were weak voices, and, incidentally, they never looked at organisms. I don't think Butler ever looked at anything except his own cat, but he still knew more about evolution than some of the more conventional thinkers.
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Butler's writings on evolution were criticised by scientists. Critics have pointed out that Butler admitted to be writing entertainment rather than science, and his writings were not taken seriously by most professional biologists. Butler's books were negatively reviewed in
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often mentioned Butler and saw value in some of his ideas, calling him "the ablest contemporary critic of Darwinian evolution". He noted Butler's insight into the efficiencies of habit formation (patterns of behaviour and mental processes) in adapting to an environment:
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evolution. Bowler noted that "Butler began to see in Lamarckism the prospect of retaining an indirect form of the design argument. Instead of creating from without, God might exist within the process of living development, represented by its innate creativity."
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The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Head-Master of Shrewsbury School 1798–1836, and Afterwards Bishop of Lichfield, In So Far as They Illustrate the Scholastic, Religious, and Social Life of England, 1790–1840. By His Grandson, Samuel
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Butler argued that each organism was not, in fact, distinct from its parents. Instead, he asserted that each being was merely an extension of its parents at a later stage of evolution. "Birth", he once quipped, "has been made too much of."
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trial began in the spring of that year, with revelations of homosexual behaviour among the literati, Butler feared being associated with the widely reported scandal and in a panic wrote to all the magazines, withdrawing his poem.
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these two, Lamarck, in their rightful place as the most believable explainers of the factors and method of evolution. His evolution belief is a sort of Butlerized Lamarckism, tracing back originally to Buffon and Erasmus Darwin.
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He was less successful when he lost money investing in a Canadian steamship company and in the Canada Tanning Extract Company, in which he and his friend Charles Pauli were made nominal directors. In 1874 Butler went to
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Butler went there, like many early British settlers of materially privileged origins, to maximise distance between himself and his family. He wrote of his arrival and life as a sheep farmer on
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Butler belonged to no literary school and spawned no followers in his lifetime. He was a serious but amateur student of the subjects he undertook, especially religious orthodoxy and
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Butler also spent time criticising Darwin, partly because Butler (in the shadow of a previous Samuel Butler) believed that Darwin had not sufficiently acknowledged his grandfather
521:(1936), concluded that Butler was a sublimated or repressed homosexual and that his lifelong status as an "incarnate bachelor" was comparable to that of his writer contemporaries 318:(1863), and he made a handsome profit when he sold his farm, but his chief achievement during his time there consisted of drafts and source material for much of his masterpiece 228:
clergy, in which he led an undistinguished career, in contrast to his father's. Samuel's immediate family created for him an oppressive home environment (chronicled in
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Another friendship was with Hans Rudolf Faesch, a Swiss student who stayed with Butler and Jones in London for two years, improving his English, before departing for
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Butler indulged himself, holidaying in Italy every summer and while there, producing his works on the Italian landscape and art. His close interest in the art of the
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made no apparent difference to the morals and behaviour of his peers and began questioning his faith. This experience would later serve as inspiration for his work
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Ex Voto; An Account of the Sacro Monte or New Jerusalem at Verallo-Sesia. With some notice of Tabachetti's remaining work at the Sanctuary of Crea
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conceived universe with a soul." Indeed, "philosophical writer" was ultimately the self-description Butler chose as most fitting to his work.
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has a canonical status, for it originates the conceit by which machines develop intelligent capacities and enslave mankind." For example, in
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are like humans, but "without the virtue", and that he "must have desired his listeners not to take them seriously." Butler translated the
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The Quest for the Father: A Study of the Darwin-Butler Controversy, as a Contribution to the Understanding of the Creative Individual
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Evolution, Old and New; Or, the Theories of Buffon, Dr. Erasmus Darwin, and Lamarck, as compared with that of Charles Darwin
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characterised as "imitation Handel", although with satirical texts. Two of the works they collaborated on were the cantatas
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admired the later Samuel Butler, who brought a new tone into Victorian literature and began a long tradition of New Zealand
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The Life and Letters of Dr. Samuel Butler, Head-Master of Shrewsbury School 1798–1836, and Afterwards Bishop of Lichfield
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Butler died on 18 June 1902, aged 66, in a nursing home in St. John's Wood Road, London. By his wish, he was cremated at
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made him a well-known figure, more because of this speculation than for its literary merits, which have been undisputed.
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Sussman, Herbert. "Samuel Butler as Late-Victorian Bachelor: Regulating and Representing the Homoerotic."
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appeared anonymously, causing some speculation as to who the author was. When Butler revealed himself,
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After Cambridge, he went to live in a low-income parish in London 1858–1859 as preparation for his
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bridge to a philosophy of life, which sought a scientific basis for religion, and endowed a
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The Eclipse of Darwinism: Anti-Darwinian Evolutionary Theories in the Decades Around 1900
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The Nature of Life: Classical and Contemporary Perspectives from Philosophy and Science
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This article is about the 19th-century novelist. For the 17th-century poet, author of
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and by differing accounts, his ashes were dispersed or buried in an unmarked grave.
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Twenty Years Later: Both by the Original Discoverer of the Country and by His Son
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glbtq: An Encyclopedia of Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Culture
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Reconciling Science and Religion: The Debate in Early-Twentieth-Century Britain
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Evolution: Genesis and Revelations: With Readings from Empedocles to Wilson
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Erewhons of the Eye: Samuel Butler as Painter, Photographer and Art Critic
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at age twelve, where he did not enjoy the hard life under its headmaster
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Butler argued in a lecture entitled "The Humour of Homer", delivered at
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Who's Who in Gay and Lesbian History: From Antiquity to World War II
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Butler was born on 4 December 1835 at the rectory in the village of
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in fiction, which "his treatment of Ernest Pontifex foreshadows."
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Vernon L. Kellogg (1912), "Samuel Butler and Biological Memory",
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Samuel Butler, Victorian against the Grain: A Critical Overview
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Samuel Butler: Victorian against the Grain, a Critical Overview
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Chapter 10 – Cherry Orchard, the growth of a Victorian suburb.
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woman, and that the scenes of the poem reflected the coast of
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Dictionary of National Biography, Second Supplement, Volume I
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Victorian Shrewsbury, Studies in the History of a County Town
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A First Year in Canterbury Settlement With Other Early Essays
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was published after Butler's death by his literary executor,
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Selections arranged and edited by Henry Festing Jones (1912)
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Butler's friend Henry Festing Jones wrote the authoritative
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Luck, or Cunning, As the Main Means of Organic Modification?
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Selections edited by Geoffrey Keynes and Brian Hill (1951)
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Luck or Cunning as the Main Means of Organic Modification?
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His influence on literature, such as it was, came through
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into the Anglican clergy; there he discovered that infant
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Lamarck, Darwin and Butler: Three Approaches to Evolution
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A Prison of Expectations: The Family in Victorian Culture
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Lamarck, Darwin and Butler: Three Approaches to Evolution
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Butler returned to England in 1864, settling in rooms in
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In a book of essays published after his death, entitled
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in 1858. The graduate society of St John's is named the
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The Correspondence of Samuel Butler with His Sister May
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Selected, Edited and Introduced by Arnold Silver (1962)
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Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon: The Man and His Work
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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Samuel Butler, Author of Erewhon (1835–1902): A Memoir
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Sue Zemka writes that "Among science fiction writers,
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
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Further Extracts from the Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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asks, "Could a man do more to bewilder the public?"
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Official English website for European Sacred Mounts
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From 1890 he took counterpoint lessons with 878:(private rehearsal 1886, published 1888), and 2383: 2172:The Earnest Atheist: A Study of Samuel Butler 1671: 1669: 1111:The Family Letters of Samuel Butler 1841-1886 584:in London, 1892, that Homer's deities in the 519:The Earnest Atheist: A Study of Samuel Butler 490:After 1878, Butler became close friends with 338:. In 1863, four years after Darwin published 185:Samuel Butler's birthplace and childhood home 1754:. New Series, Vol. 35, No. 907. pp. 769–771. 1535:, Robert Aldrich and Garry Wotherspoon, eds. 1433:Article by "E. M. L." (Colonel E. M. Lloyd). 1379:Colour Library Book of Great British Writers 1101:chosen and edited by A.T. Bartholomew (1934) 220:His only son, Thomas, wished to go into the 193:. His father was Rev. Thomas Butler, son of 2397: 2064:. London/Toronto: J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd 2017:English Literature in Transition, 1880-1920 1690: 1587:""Erewhon" and the End of Utopian Humanism" 1283:An Illustrated Literary Guide to Shropshire 143:(1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel 2390: 2376: 2360: 2033:The revised edition was also published as 2011:Lauterbach, Edward S. (20 February 1964). 2010: 1666: 1584: 1261: 1259: 1257: 1255: 1253: 1251: 1249: 1201: 893: 571:elaborated on the hypothesis in his novel 55: 2250:Darwin and Butler: Two Views of Evolution 2013:"A Definitive Edition of Ernest Pontifex" 344:, the editor of a New Zealand newspaper, 249:, whom he later drew as "Dr. Skinner" in 1631: 1547: 1545: 1543: 1504: 1502: 1500: 1441: 1439: 1422: 1420: 1305: 529:, and E. M. Forster, also thought to be 276: 180: 2252:. New York: Harcourt, Brace and Company 2108:Samuel Butler and His Victorian Critics 2103:. Bloomington: Indiana University Press 1789:Samuel Butler and His Darwinian Critics 1658:Gouge, T. A. (1967). "Butler, Samuel". 1653: 1651: 1524: 1482: 1397: 1280: 1246: 1077:Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh 938:Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh 860:Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh 151:Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh 27:English novelist and critic (1835–1902) 14: 2461:Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge 2443: 2062:Samuel Butler and His Family Relations 2055:Samuel Butler and The Way of All Flesh 2023:(4): 248–249 – via Project MUSE. 1181:"Samuel Butler and Art | StJohns" 814:has described Butler as a defender of 761:Butler wrote four books on evolution: 2371: 2334:37 artworks by or after Samuel Butler 2240:Samuel Butler: A Mid-Victorian Modern 2101:Samuel Butler: The Incarnate Bachelor 2089:, Vol. 208, No. 753, pp. 277–286 1657: 1540: 1537:New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 90–91. 1497: 1436: 1417: 1402:. Shropshire Libraries. p. 118. 1268:Samuel Butler, a Mid-Victorian Modern 316:A First Year in Canterbury Settlement 2481:People from Bingham, Nottinghamshire 2476:People educated at Shrewsbury School 2292:Works by Samuel Butler in eBook form 1978:The Humour of Homer and Other Essays 1648: 1509:Geddis, Catherine. "Butler, Samuel." 1285:. Shropshire Libraries. p. 14. 1207: 912:The Humour of Homer and Other Essays 2208:, Vol. 23, No. 91, pp. 371–385 2154:. Austin: University of Texas Press 2123:. New York: Twayne Publishers, Inc. 1426: 1243:, published in two volumes in 1896. 1215:Dictionary of New Zealand Biography 541:Butler developed a theory that the 433:. His semi-autobiographical novel, 330:revealed Butler's long interest in 24: 2521:Translators of Ancient Greek texts 2235:, Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 238–249 2044: 1730:State University of New York Press 1050:Shakespeare's Sonnets Reconsidered 624:. Huxley's Utopian counterpart to 217:, where he distinguished himself. 25: 2542: 2358:National Portrait Gallery, London 2256: 2174:. London: Eyre & Spottiswoode 2057:. London: Home & Van Thal Ltd 1701:Evolution: The History of an Idea 1531:Robinson, J. Z. "Samuel Butler". 1220:Ministry for Culture and Heritage 1158:Selected with an Introduction by 1084:God the Known and God the Unknown 954:(1863, largely incorporated into 730:God the Known and God the Unknown 354:", written by Butler, but signed 2486:19th-century New Zealand farmers 2326: 594:(1898). His other works include 350:, published a letter captioned " 2531:English science fiction writers 2310:Works by or about Samuel Butler 2225:George Gaylord Simpson (1961), 2200:The Philosophy of Samuel Butler 2027: 2004: 1970: 1954: 1940: 1922: 1912:– University of Chicago Press. 1898: 1879: 1860: 1836: 1823:George Gaylord Simpson (1961), 1817: 1800: 1781: 1757: 1742: 1718: 1625: 1578: 1575:. 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Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
Hudibras
Samuel Butler (poet)
Portrait by Charles Gogin
Langar, Nottinghamshire
Shrewsbury School
St John's College, Cambridge
utopian
Erewhon
The Way of All Flesh
orthodoxy
evolutionary thought
Iliad
Odyssey

Langar, Nottinghamshire
Dr. Samuel Butler
Shrewsbury School
Bishop of Lichfield
yeomen
Rugby
Cambridge
Navy
Anglican
The Way of All Flesh
Shrewsbury
Benjamin Hall Kennedy
St John's College, Cambridge
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