Selections from Previous Works Part 19

Who seasonest also the skins of Canadian owls, Thou callest 'trousers' 'pants,' whereas I call them 'trousers,'

Therefore thou art in h.e.l.l-fire, and may the Lord pity thee!

O G.o.d! O Montreal!

"Preferrest thou the gospel of Montreal to the gospel of h.e.l.las, The gospel of thy connection with Mr. Spurgeon's haberdashery to the gospel of the Discobolus?"

Yet none the less blasphemed he beauty, saying, "The Discobolus hath no gospel,-- But my brother-in-law is haberdasher to Mr. Spurgeon."

O G.o.d! O Montreal!

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EREWHON; or, OVER THE RANGE. Op. 1.

A WORK OF SATIRE AND IMAGINATION.

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THE FAIR HAVEN. Op. 2.

A work in Defence of the Miraculous Element in our Lord's Ministry on earth, both as against Rationalistic Impugners and certain Orthodox Defenders. Written under the pseudonym of JOHN PICKARD OWEN, with a Memoir by his supposed brother, WILLIAM BICKERSTETH OWEN.

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LIFE AND HABIT. Op. 3.

AN ESSAY AFTER A COMPLETER VIEW OF EVOLUTION.

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Footnotes:

{iii} See page 234 of this book.

{1} The first edition of Erewhon was published in the spring of 1872.

{47} The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names and considerable modifications. I have taken the liberty of referring to the story as familiar to ourselves.

{48} The first edition of the Fair Haven was published April 1873.

{68} The first edition of Life and Habit was published in December, 1877.

{96} See page 228 of this book, "Remarks on Mr. Romanes' 'Mental Evolution in Animals.'"

{119} Kegan Paul, 1875.

{125} It is now (January 1884) more than six years since Life and Habit was published, but I have come across nothing which makes me wish to alter it to any material extent.

{127} It must be remembered that the late Mr. C. Darwin expressly denied that instinct and inherited habit are generally to be connected.--See Mr.

Darwin's "Origin of Species," end of chapter viii., where he expresses his surprise that no one has. .h.i.therto adduced the instincts of neuter insects "against the well-known doctrine of inherited habit as advanced by Lamarck."

Mr. Romanes, in his "Mental Evolution in Animals" (November, 1883), refers to this pa.s.sage of Mr. Darwin's, and endorses it with approbation (p. 297).

{131} Evolution, Old and New, was published in May, 1879.

{134a} Quatref.a.ges, "Metamorphoses de l'Homme et des Animaux," 1862, p.

42; G. H. Lewes, "Physical Basis of Mind," 1877, p. 83.

{134b} I have been unable, through want of s.p.a.ce, to give this chapter here.

{141} Page 210, first edition.

{144} 1878.

{148} "Nat. Theol." ch. xxiii.

{153a} 1878.

{153b} "Oiseaux," vol. i. p. 5.

{162} "Discours de Reception a l'Academie Francaise."

{163} I Cor. xiii. 8, 13.

{164a} Tom. i. p. 24, 1749.