"Every new idea has something of the pain and peril of childbirth about it; ideas are just as mortal and just as immortal as organised beings are."
About Samuel Butler (novelist)
Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulted.
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