In "erewhon" I did not think it necessary to insist on this, and did not, indeed, yet fully know what I was driving at.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
It would be doing too little credit to Mr. Romanes' intelligence to suppose him not to have known when he said this that "Life and Habit" was written as seriously as my subsequent books on evolution, but it suited him at the moment to join those who professed to consider it another book of paradoxes such as, I suppose, "erewhon" had been, so he classed the two together.
"Luck or Cunning?"
Samuel Butler
There is plenty of poetry in the Penguin Island and erewhon, for example.
"The Literature of Ecstasy"
Albert Mordell