The Biographical Statement is founded on a skeleton Diary which is in the Note-Books. It is intended to show, among other things, how intimately the great variety of subjects touched upon in the notes entered into and formed part of Butler’s working life. It does not stop at the 18th of June, 1902, because, as he says (p. 23 post), “Death is not more the end of some than it is the beginning of others”; and, again (p. 13 post), for those who come to the true birth the life we live beyond the grave is our truest life. The Biographical Statement has accordingly been carried on to the present time so as to include the principal events that have occurred during the opening period of the “good average three-score years and ten of immortality” which he modestly hoped he might inherit in the life of the world to come. HENRY FESTING JONES. Mount Eryx, Trapani, Sicily, _August_, 1912. Contents PAGE Biographical Statement 1 I. Lord, What is Man? 9 II. Elementary Morality 24 III. The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit 39 IV. Memory and Design 56 V. Vibrations 66 VI. Mind and Matter 74 VII. On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books 93 VIII. Handel and Music 110 IX. A Painter’s Views on Painting 135 X. The Position of a Homo Unius Libri 155 XI. Cash and Credit 168 XII. The Enfant Terrible of Literature 183 XIII. Unprofessional Sermons 200 XIV. Higgledy-Piggledy 215 XV. Titles and Subjects 229 XVI. Written Sketches 237 XVII. Material for a Projected Sequel to Alps and 259 Sanctuaries XVIII. Material for Erewhon Revisited 288 XIX. Truth and Convenience 297 XX. First Principles 309 XXI. Rebelliousness 332 XXII. Reconciliation 346 XXIII. Death 353 XXIV. The Life of the World to Come 360 XXV. Poems 379 Biographical Statement