Negative Space: Samuel Butler
- Erewhon
- Samuel Butler’s Erewhon is a challenge to Darwin and a challenge to socialism. It holds its bite against the latter, but has become more of a prophecy of the future with regards to the former: Butler took Darwin’s theory, applied it meticulously to machines, and forecast the computer.
- Samuel Butler
- Samuel Butler wrote a brilliant piece of satire in 1872 called Erewhon.
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“Inspired by Samuel Butler’s years in colonial New Zealand, and by his reading of Darwin’s ‘Origin of Species’, Erewhon (1872) is a highly original, irreverent and humorous satire on conventional virtues, religious hypocrisy and the unthinking acceptance of beliefs.”
