The Note-Books of Samuel Butler
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Author(s):
Samuel Butler
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Prefatory Materials
PREFACE
BIOGRAPHICAL STATEMENT
I—LORD, WHAT IS MAN?
Life
The World
The Individual and the World
My Life
The Life we Live in Others
The World Made to Enjoy
Living in Others
Karma
Birth and Death
Reproduction
Thinking almost Identically
Evacuations
Man and His Organism
Tools
Organs and Makeshifts
Joining and Disjoining
Cotton Factories
Our Trivial Bodies
II—ELEMENTARY MORALITY
Counsels of Imperfection
Lucifer
The Oracle in Erewhon
God’s Laws
Physical Excellence
Intellectual Self-Indulgence
Dodging Fatigue
Vice and Virtue
My Virtuous Life
Sin
Morality
Change and Immorality
Cannibalism
Abnormal Developments
Young People
The Family
Unconscious Humour
Homer’s Odyssey
Melchisedec
Bacon for Breakfast
God and Man
The Homeric Deity and the Pall Mall Gazette
Good Breeding the Summum Bonum
Advice to the Young
Religion
Heaven and Hell
Priggishness
Lohengrin
Swells
Science and Religion
Gentleman
The Finest Men
On being a Swell all Round
Money
A Luxurious Death
Money, Health and Reputation
Solicitors
Doctors
Priests
III—THE GERMS OF EREWHON AND OF LIFE AND HABIT
Darwin among the Machines
Lucubratio Ebria
Letter to Thomas William Gale Butler
February 18th, 1876.
IV—MEMORY AND DESIGN
Memory
Antitheses
Unconscious Memory
Reproduction and Memory
Personal Identity
Sensations
Cobwebs in the Dark
Shocks and Memory
Shocks
Design
Accident, Design and Memory
Memory and Mistakes
Remembering
A Torn Finger-Nail
Unconscious Association
Association
Language
V—VIBRATIONS
The Universal Substance
Mental and Physical
Vibrations, Memory and Chemical Properties
Protoplasm and Reproduction
Germs within Germs
Atoms and Fixed Laws
Thinking
Equilibrium
VI—MIND AND MATTER
Matter and Mind
Organic and Inorganic
The Power to make Mistakes
The Omnipresence of Intelligence
The Super-Organic Kingdom
Feeling
Opinion and Matter
Moral Influence
Mental and Physical Pabulum
Eating and Proselytising
Sea-Sickness
Indigestion
Assimilation and Persecution
Matter Infinitely Subdivisible
Differences
Union and Separation
Unity and Multitude
The Atom
Our Cells
Nerves and Postmen
Night-Shirts and Babies
Our Organism
Beer and My Cat
The Union Bank
The Unity of Nature
Croesus and His Kitchen-Maid
VII—ON THE MAKING OF MUSIC, PICTURES AND BOOKS
The Law
Ideas
Expression
Development
Acquired Characteristics
Physical and Spiritual
Trail and Writing
Conveyancing and the Arts
The Rules for Making Literature, Music and Pictures
Relative Importances
Eating Grapes Downwards
Terseness
Making Notes
Shortening
Omission
Brevity
Diffuseness
Difficulties in Art, Literature and Music
Knowledge is Power
Academicism
Agonising
The Choice of Subjects
Imaginary Countries
My Books
Great Works
New Ideas
Books and Children
The Life of Books
Criticism
Le Style c’est 1’Homme
Portraits
A Man’s Style
The Gauntlet of Youth
Greatness in Art
Literary Power
Subject and Treatment
Public Opinion
A Literary Man’s Test
What Audience to Write for
Writing for a Hundred Years Hence
VIII—HANDEL AND MUSIC
Handel and Domenico Scarlatti
Handel and Homer
Handel and Bach
Handel and the British Public
Handel and Madame Patey
Handel and Shakespeare
A Yankee Handelian
Waste
Handel a Conservative
Handel and Ernest Pontifex
Handel’s Commonplaces
Handel and Dr. Morell
Wordsworth
Sleeping Beauties
Handel and the Speaking Voice
Handel and the Wetterhorn
Handel and Marriage
Handel and a Letter to a Solicitor
Handel’s Shower of Rain
Theodora and Susanna
John Sebastian Bach
Honesty
Musical Criticism
On Borrowing in Music
Music
Discords
Anachronism
Chapters in Music
At the Opera
At a Philharmonic Concert
At the Wind Concerts
At a Handel Festival
Handel and Dickens
IX—A PAINTER’S VIEWS ON PAINTING
The Academic System and Repentance
The Jubilee Sixpence
Studying from Nature
The Model and the Lay-Figure
Sketching from Nature
Great Art and Sham Art
Inarticulate Touches
Detail
Painting and Association
The Credulous Eye
Truths from Nature
Accuracy
Herbert Spencer
Shade Colour and Reputation
Money and Technique
Action and Study
Sacred and Profane Statues
Seeing
Improvement in Art
Light and Shade
Colour
Words and Colour
Amateurs and Professionals
The Ansidei Raffaelle
Buying a Rembrandt
Trying to Buy a Bellini
Watts
Lombard Portals
Holbein at Basle
Van Eyck
Giotto
Early Art
Sincerity
X—THE POSITION OF A HOMO UNIUS LIBRI
Capping a Success
A Lady Critic
Compensation
Hudibras and Erewhon
Life and Habit and Myself
A Disappointing Person
Entertaining Angels
Myself and My Books
Dragons
Trying to Know
Squaring Accounts
Charles Darwin on what Sells a Book
Hoodwinking the Public
The Public Ear
Secular Thinking
The Art of Propagating Opinion
Gladstone as a Financier
Argument
Humour
My Humour
Myself and My Publishers
XI—CASH AND CREDIT
The Kingdom of Heaven
The Philosopher
The Artist and the Shopkeeper
Art and Trade
Money
Modern Simony
My Grandfather and Myself
Art and Usefulness
Genius
Great Things
Genius and Providence
The Art of Covery
Wanted
Ephemeral and Permanent Success
My Birthright
XII—THE ENFANT TERRIBLE OF LITERATURE
Blake, Dante, Virgil and Tennyson
My Father and Shakespeare
Tennyson
Walter Pater and Matthew Arnold
My Random Passages
Moral Try-Your-Strengths
Populus Vult
Men and Monkeys
Genuine Feeling
George Meredith
Froude and Freeman
Style
Diderot on Criticism
Bunyan and Others
Bunyan and the Odyssey
Poetry
Verse
Verse, Poetry and Prose
Ancient Work
Nausicaa and Myself
Telemachus and Nicholas Nickleby
Gadshill and Trapani
Waiting to be Hired
Ilium and Padua
Eumaeus and Lord Burleigh
My Reviewers’ Sense of Need
The Authoress of the Odyssey
Homer and his Commentators
The Iliad
Glacial Periods of Folly
Translations from Verse into Prose
Translating the Odyssey
The Odyssey and a Tomb at Carcassonne
Getting it Wrong
XIII—UNPROFESSIONAL SERMONS
Wisdom
Loving and Hating
The Roman Empire
Italians and Englishmen
On Knowing what Gives us Pleasure
De Minimis non Curat Lex
Saints
Prayer
XIV—HIGGLEDY-PIGGLEDY
Waste-Paper Baskets
Flies in the Milk-Jug
My Thoughts
Our Ideas
Cat-Ideas and Mouse-Ideas
Incoherency of New Ideas
An Apology for the Devil
Hallelujah
Hating
Hamlet, Don Quixote, Mr. Pickwick and others
Reputation
Science and Business
Scientists
Scientific Terminology
Scientists and Drapers
Men of Science
Sparks
Dumb-Bells
Purgatory
Greatness
The Vanity of Human Wishes
Jones’s Conscience
Nihilism
On Breaking Habits
Dogs
Future and Past
Nature
Lucky and Unlucky
Definitions
Money
Wit
Oxford and Cambridge
Cooking
Perseus and St. George
Specialism and Generalism
Silence and Tact
Truth-tellers
Street Preachers
Providence and Othello
Providence and Improvidence
Epiphany
Fortune
Gold-Mines
Things and Purses
Solomon in all his Glory
David’s Teachers
S. Michael
One Form of Failure
Andromeda
Self-Confidence
Wandering
Poverty
Pedals or Drones
Evasive Nature
Fashion
Doctors and Clergymen
God is Love
Common Chords
God and the Devil
Sex
Women
Offers of Marriage
Marriage
Life and Love
The Basis of Life
Woman Suffrage
Manners Makyth Man
Women and Religion
Happiness
Sorrow within Sorrow
Going Away
XV—TITLES AND SUBJECTS
For Unwritten Articles, Essays, Stories
Imaginary Worlds
An Idyll
A Divorce Novelette
The Moral Painter—A Tale of Double Personality
Two Writers
The Archbishop of Heligoland
XVI—WRITTEN SKETCHES
London
A Clifford’s Inn Euphemism
London Trees
What I Said to the Milkman
The Return of the Jews to Palestine
The Great Bear’s Barley-Water
The Cock Tavern
Myself in Dowie’s Shop
My Dentist
Furber the Violin-Maker
Window Cleaning in the British Museum Reading-Room
The Electric Light in its Infancy
Fire
Adam and Eve
Mr. Darwin in the Zoological Gardens
Terbourg
At Doctors’ Commons
The Sack of Khartoum
Missolonghi
Memnon
Manzi the Model
A Sailor Boy and Some Chickens
Gogin, the Japanese Gentleman and the Dead Dog
St. Pancras’ Bells
At Eynsford
Mrs. Hicks
New-Laid Eggs
At Englefield Green
At Abbey Wood
At Ightham Mote
Dr. Mandell Creighton and Mr. W. S. Rockstro
Pigs
Mozart
Divorce
Ravens
Calais to Dover
Snapshotting a Bishop
Homer and the Basins
The Channel Passage
The Two Barristers at Ypres
At Montreuil-sur-Mer
XVII—MATERIAL FOR A PROJECTED SEQUEL TO ALPS AND SANCTUARIES
Not to be Omitted
The Sacro Monte at Varese
The Albergo Grotta Crimea
Public Opinion
These Notes
The Wife of Bath
Horace at the Post-Office in Rome
Beethoven at Faido and at Boulogne
Silvio
Sunday Morning at Soglio
Fascination
Supreme Occasions
The Aurora Borealis
A Tragic Expression
The Wrath to Come
The Beauties of Nature
The Late King Vittorio Emanuele
The Bishop of Chichester at Faido
At Piora
At Ferentino
The Imperfect Lady
Siena and S. Gimignano
The Etruscan Urns at Volterra
The Quick and the Dead
The Grape-Filter
Bertoli and his Bees
Introduction of Foreign Plants
Saint Cosimo and Saint Damiano at Siena
At Pienza
Homer’s Hot and Cold Springs
XVIII—MATERIAL FOR EREWHON REVISITED
XIX—TRUTH AND CONVENIENCE
Two Points of View
Truth
Falsehood
Nature’s Double Falsehood
Convenience
Classification
Attempts at Classification
A Clergyman’s Doubts
XX—FIRST PRINCIPLES
Imagination
Inexperience
Ex Nihilo Nihil Fit
Contradiction in Terms
Extremes
Free-Will and Necessity
Free-Will otherwise Cunning
Necessity otherwise Luck
Choice
Ego and Non-Ego
Two Incomprehensibles
God and the Unknown
Scylla and Charybdis
Philosophy
Philosophy and Equal Temperament
Hedging the Cuckoo
God and Philosophies
Common Sense, Reason and Faith
The Credit System
Argument
Logic and Philosophy
Science
Religion
Logic
Logic and Faith
Common Sense and Philosophy
First Principles
XXI—REBELLIOUSNESS
God and Flesh
Gods and Prophets
Faith and Reason
God and the Devil
Christianity
Miracles
Wants and Creeds
Faith
The Cuckoo and the Moon
Buddhism
Theist and Atheist
The Peculiar People
Renan
The Spiritual Treadmill
The Dim Religious Light
The Peace that Passeth Understanding
The New Testament
Christ and the L. & N.W. Railway
The Jumping Cat
Personified Science
Science and Theology
The Church and the Supernatural
Gratitude and Revenge
Cant and Hypocrisy
Real Blasphemy
The English Church Abroad
Drunkenness
Hell-Fire
XXII—RECONCILIATION
God and Convenience
The World
Blasphemy
Gaining One’s Point
The Voice of Common Sense
Amendes Honorables
Forgiveness and Retribution
Inaccuracy
The Parables
The Irreligion of Orthodoxy
Society and Christianity
Sanctified by Faith
Ourselves and the Clergy
The Rules of Life
XXIII—DEATH
Continued Identity
Complete Death
Life and Death
The Defeat of Death
The Torture of Death
Ignorance of Death
Dissolution
The Dislike of Death
XXIV—THE LIFE OF THE WORLD TO COME
The Test of Faith
Starting again ad Infinitum
Preparation for Death
The Vates Sacer
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