Darwin among the Machines
A letter to the editor of The Press (Christchurch), 13 June 1863, signed "Cellarius". Butler later claimed it and called it the first part of Erewhon written.
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- Darwin among the Machines The Press (Christchurch) · published 1863-06-13 · Papers Past article text (marked user-corrected) in the Internet Archive capture of 2026-08-26; quoted passages compared with the archived column images of the printed page (captured 2024-06-12). Papers Past returned a bot-protection page to scripted requests. A later check on 2026-10-06 verified the article text but could not retrieve the column images (HTTP 403).Archived copy, captured 2026-08-26: Darwin among the Machines. Captured 59609 days after the recorded publication date. An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2026-08-26. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-06.
- Erewhon, or Over the Range (revised edition, with the prefaces of 1872 and 1901) Project Gutenberg (e-text 1906) · published 1901 · Project Gutenberg e-text 1906 (released 1999, updated 2025) of the revised edition; it does not name its source printing. Retrieved 2026-10-06; no printed 1901 copy was compared.
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