Further on in the preface to the 1901 edition of _Erewhon_ he writes: “A second article on the same subject as the one just referred to appeared in the _Press_ shortly after the first, but I have no copy. It treated machines from a different point of view and was the basis of pp. 270–274 of the present edition of _Erewhon_. This view ultimately led me to the theory I put forward in _Life and Habit_, published in November, 1877. {41} I have put a bare outline of this theory (which I believe to be quite sound) into the mouth of an Erewhonian professor in Chapter XXVII of this book.” This second article was _Lucubratio Ebria_, and was sent by Butler from England to the editor of the _Press_ in 1865, with a letter from which this is an extract: “I send you an article which you can give to FitzGerald or not, just as you think it most expedient—for him. Is not the subject worked out, and are not the Canterbury people tired of Darwinism? For me—is it an article to my credit? I do not send it to FitzGerald because I am sure he would put it into the paper. . . . I know the undue lenience which he lends to my performances, and believe you to be the sterner critic of the two. That there are some good things in it you will, I think, feel; but I am almost sure that considering _usque ad nauseam_ etc., you will think it had better not appear. . . . I think you and he will like that sentence: ‘There was a moral government of the world before man came into it.’ There is hardly a sentence in it written without deliberation; but I need hardly say that it was done upon tea, not upon whiskey . . . “P.S. If you are in any doubt about the expediency of the article take it to M. “P.P.S. Perhaps better take it to him anyhow.” The preface to the 1901 edition of Erewhon contains some further particulars of the genesis of that work, and there are still further particulars in _Unconscious Memory_, 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_, Chapter V (pp. 83, 84). Butler kept a copy of his letter to T. W. G. Butler, but it was imperfectly pressed; he afterwards supplied some of the missing words from memory, and gave it to the British Museum. Darwin among the Machines [To the Editor of the _Press_, Christchurch, New Zealand—13 June, 1863.]