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Over the Range
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Erewhon
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION
The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is
pronounced as a word of three syllables, all short—thus,
E-re-whon.
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PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION
Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to
get through an unusually large edition of ‘Erewhon’ in a
very short time, I have taken the opportunity of a second
edition to make some necessary corrections, and to add a
few passages where it struck me that they would be
appropriately introduced; the passages are few, and it is my
fixed intention never to touch the work again.
I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in
reference to ‘The Coming Race,’ to the success of which
book ‘Erewhon’ has been very generally set down as due.
This is a mistake, though a perfectly natural one. The fact
is that ‘Erewhon’ was finished, with the exception of the
last twenty pages and a sentence or two inserted from time
to time here and there throughout the book, before the
first advertisement of ‘The Coming Race’ appeared. A
friend having called my attention to one of the first of
these advertisements, and suggesting that it probably
referred to a work of similar character to my own, I took
‘Erewhon’ to a well-known firm of publishers on the 1st
of May 1871, and left it in their hands for consideration. I
then went abroad, and on learning that the publishers
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alluded to declined the MS., I let it alone for six or seven
months, and, being in an out-of-the-way part of Italy,
never saw a single review of ‘The Coming Race,’ nor a
copy of the work. On my return, I purposely avoided
looking into it until I had sent back my last revises to the
printer. Then I had much pleasure in reading it, but was
indeed surprised at the many little points of similarity
between the two books, in spite of their entire
independence to one another.
I regret that reviewers have in some cases been inclined
to treat the chapters on Machines as an attempt to reduce
Mr. Darwin’s theory to an absurdity. Nothing could be
further from my intention, and few things would be more
distasteful to me than any attempt to laugh at Mr. Darwin;
but I must own that I have myself to thank for the
misconception, for I felt sure that my intention would be
missed, but preferred not to weaken the chapters by
explanation, and knew very well that Mr. Darwin’s theory
would take no harm. The only question in my mind was
how far I could afford to be misrepresented as laughing at
that for which I have the most profound admiration. I am
surprised, however, that the book at which such an
example of the specious misuse of analogy would seem
most naturally levelled should have occurred to no
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reviewer; neither shall I mention the name of the book
here, though I should fancy that the hint given will suffice.
I have been held by some whose opinions I respect to
have denied men’s responsibility for their actions. He who
does this is an enemy who deserves no quarter. I should
have imagined that I had been sufficiently explicit, but
have made a few additions to the chapter on Malcontents,
which will, I think, serve to render further mistake
impossible.
An anonymous correspondent (by the hand-writing
presumably a clergyman) tells me that in quoting from the
Latin grammar I should at any rate have done so correctly,
and that I should have written ‘agricolas’ instead of
‘agricolae". He added something about any boy in the
fourth form, &c., &c., which I shall not quote, but which
made me very uncomfortable. It may be said that I must
have misquoted from design, from ignorance, or by a slip
of the pen; but surely in these days it will be recognised as
harsh to assign limits to the all-embracing boundlessness of
truth, and it will be more reasonably assumed that EACH
of the three possible causes of misquotation must have had
its share in the apparent blunder. The art of writing things
that shall sound right and yet be wrong has made so many
reputations, and affords comfort to such a large number of
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