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The Note-Books of Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 396 pages

The Note-Books of Samuel Butler is a collection of essays and notebook entries selected and arranged by Henry Festing Jones. It gathers Butler's aphorisms, observations, and reflections on literature, art, science, religion, and everyday life. Listeners may enjoy its wit, independence of mind, and the glimpse it gives into a curious Victorian thinker.

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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
  2. Preface
  3. Contents
  4. Biographical Statement
  5. I Lord, What is Man?
  6. II Elementary Morality
  7. III The Germs of Erewhon and of Life and Habit
  8. IV Memory and Design
  9. V Vibrations
  10. VI Mind and Matter
  11. VII On the Making of Music, Pictures and Books
  12. VIII Handel and Music
  13. IX A Painter’s Views on Painting
  14. X The Position of a Homo Unius Libri
  15. XI Cash and Credit
  16. XII The Enfant Terrible of Literature
  17. XIII Unprofessional Sermons
  18. XIV Higgledy-Piggledy
  19. XV Titles and Subjects
  20. XVI Written Sketches
  21. XVII Material for a Projected Sequel to Alps and Sanctuaries
  22. XVIII Material for Erewhon Revisited
  23. XIX Truth and Convenience
  24. XX First Principles
  25. XXI Rebelliousness
  26. XXII Reconciliation
  27. XXIII Death
  28. XXIV The Life of the World to Come
  29. XXV Poems
  30. Footnotes

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