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Samuel Butler
Erewhon
(A Dystopia)
The Masterpiece that Inspired Orwell's 1984 by Predicting the Takeover of Humanity by AI Machines
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2017 OK Publishing
ISBN 978-80-272-2479-1
Table of Contents
Preface to the Revised Edition
XIII. The Views of the Erewhonians Concerning Death
XVII. Ydgrun and the Ydgrunites
XXII. The Colleges of Unreason—Continued
XXIII. The Book of the Machines
XXVI. The Views of an Erewhonian Prophet Concerning the Rights of Animals
XXVII. The Views of an Erewhonian Philosopher Concerning the Rights of Vegetables
“του yαρ ειναι δοκουντος αyαθου χαριν παντα πραττουσι παντες.”
—ARIST. Pol.
“There is no action save upon a balance of considerations.”
—Paraphrase.
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.
I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in reference to “The Coming Race,” to the success of which book “Erewhon” has been very generally set down as due. This is a mistake, though a perfectly natural one. The fact is that “Erewhon” was finished, with
