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 .
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