[Illustration] EREWHON OR, OVER THE RANGE by Samuel Butler “Τοῦ γὰρ εἰναι δοκοῦντος ἀγαθοῦ χάριν πάντα πράττουσι πάντες.”—ARIST. _Pol_. “There is no action save upon a balance of considerations.”—_Paraphrase_. Contents PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION CHAPTER I. WASTE LANDS CHAPTER II. IN THE WOOL-SHED CHAPTER III. UP THE RIVER CHAPTER IV. THE SADDLE CHAPTER V. THE RIVER AND THE RANGE CHAPTER VI. INTO EREWHON CHAPTER VII. FIRST IMPRESSIONS CHAPTER VIII. IN PRISON CHAPTER IX. TO THE METROPOLIS CHAPTER X. CURRENT OPINIONS CHAPTER XI. SOME EREWHONIAN TRIALS CHAPTER XII. MALCONTENTS CHAPTER XIII. THE VIEWS OF THE EREWHONIANS CONCERNING DEATH CHAPTER XIV. MAHAINA CHAPTER XV. THE MUSICAL BANKS CHAPTER XVI. AROWHENA CHAPTER XVII. YDGRUN AND THE YDGRUNITES CHAPTER XVIII. BIRTH FORMULAE CHAPTER XIX. THE WORLD OF THE UNBORN CHAPTER XX. WHAT THEY MEAN BY IT CHAPTER XXI. THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON CHAPTER XXII. THE COLLEGES OF UNREASON—Continued CHAPTER XXIII. THE BOOK OF THE MACHINES CHAPTER XXIV. THE MACHINES—continued CHAPTER XXV. THE MACHINES—concluded CHAPTER XXVI. THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PROPHET CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF ANIMALS CHAPTER XXVII. THE VIEWS OF AN EREWHONIAN PHILOSOPHER CONCERNING THE RIGHTS OF VEGETABLES CHAPTER XXVIII. ESCAPE CHAPTER XXIX. CONCLUSION Footnotes 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, Ĕ-rĕ-whŏn. 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.