Transcribed from the 1914 A. C. Fifield edition by DavidPrice,

CANTERBURY PIECES

By
Samuel Butler
Author of “Erewhon,”“The Way of All Flesh,” etc.

Edited by R. A. Streatfeild

London: A. C.Fifield
1914

CONTENTS

p.149Darwin on the Origin of Species

Prefatory Note

As the following dialogueembodies the earliest fruits of Butler’s study of the worksof Charles Darwin, with whose name his own was destined inlater years to be so closely connected, and thus possessesan interest apart from its intrinsic merit, a few words asto the circumstances in which it was published will not be out ofplace.

Butler arrived in New Zealand in October, 1859, andabout the same time Charles