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Explore a razor-sharp portrait of Samuel Butler, a fearless thinker who shaped modern critique. This edition gathers introductory writing and note-book reflections that reveal the mind of a remarkable 19th‑century observer—pragmatic, independent, and relentlessly curious about how ideas take hold.
Two concise sections frame Butler’s life and method: an accessible introduction to his heterodox views and a selection of his day‑to‑day observations. The result is a clear, patient look at how he thought, judged, and wrote across art, science, and daily life.
- How Butler questioned authority in religion, art, and science without surrendering value to any field.
- Why he trusted experience and honest reflection over formulaic doctrines.
- Examples of his habit of noting ideas, music, and impressions with disciplined, careful thought.
- Context for his influence on later pragmatism and the tradition of personal critical writing.
Ideal for readers seeking a thoughtful, accessible study of a provocative mind and a window into the origin of modern critical thinking. This edition is well suited to students, general readers, and anyone curious about the roots of pragmatic philosophy and literary criticism.
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Butler achieved for himself and the one which these Note Books SO fully and singularly exemplify.
There is a kind of man whose sensations come at the dou ble, who must take them down as they fly by or lose them eternally. Butler's note-books were not kept for such a purpose. It was not his senses that were imperious for a scribe: it was his ruminations, his ideas. He was painter and musician as well as writer, and he was writer in the most general interpretation, but his chief characteristic was not, so to speak, sensuous impressionability. It was an incessant intellectual activity. He had the principle of stopping every where and anywhere to put down his notes, as the true painter will stop anywhere and everywhere to sketch, but the notes were not wild or woodland, they were memoranda in his end less discovery Of wisdom. Occasionally the spectacle of the world urged him to record emotion, and he observes that from the age of twelve the music Of his well-beloved Handel was never a day out of his head. But it was the Opinions and ideas he derived from experience that stirred him to write in his Note - Books. Experience did not so much enamor him as stimulate his mind.
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In uThe Doctor's Dilemma" there is a saucy reference to an unprofessional heretic who has views on art, science, morals and religion. Old Sir Patrick Cullen shocks the heretic's disciple by not even recognizing the name. ~(Bernard Shaw?" he ponders, "I never heard of him. He's a 11ethodist preacher, I suppose." Louis is horrified. "No, no. He's the most advanced man now living: he isn't anything." The old doctor is not set back an inch. These uadvanced~' men who impress the young by employing the accumulations of genius-he knows them. "I assure yOll, young man," he in-· fonns Louis, Hmy father learnt the doctdne of deliverance from sin from John Ves1cy's own lips before you or r.-1r. Shaw were born." I t is a pleasant thing to claim that the man you admire is "advanced" and to believe serenely that you are progressive along wHh him. It is also a convenient thing to employ such question-begging phrases as heterodox, radical, free-thinker, anarchist.
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