Canterbury Pieces

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Canterbury Pieces is by Samuel Butler, author of Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh, edited by R. A. Streatfeild. The contents list names pieces such as Darwin on the Origin of Species, A Dialogue, Barrel-Organs and Darwin Among the Machines, among others.

A letter from Charles Darwin, headed Down, Bromley, Kent, September 30 [1865], thanks the recipient for so kindly sending him "your Evidences, etc." Butler replied from 15 Clifford's Inn, E.C., October 1st, 1865, "I knew you were ill and I never meant to give you the fatigue of writing to me." A letter to the Editor of the Press calls its correspondent "A. M." pertinacious on the subject of the bear being changed into a whale, which the writer said Darwin contemplated as not impossible.

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Samuel Butler

Samuel Butler (1835-1902) was an English author, painter, and iconoclast who spent formative years sheep farming in New Zealand. A relentless critic of Victorian religion and morality, he is best known for the satire Erewhon and the posthumous novel The Way of All Flesh.