




Transcribed from the 1910 A. C. Fifield (revised) edition by David Price,
email ccx074@coventry.ac.uk





EREWHON, OR OVER THE RANGE


   "[Greek text]"--ARIST.  _Pol_.

   "There is no action save upon a balance of
   considerations."--_Paraphrase_.




PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION


The Author wishes it to be understood that Erewhon is pronounced as a
word of three syllables, all short--thus, E-re-whon.




PREFACE TO SECOND EDITION


Having been enabled by the kindness of the public to get through an
unusually large edition of "Erewhon" in a very short time, I have taken
the opportunity of a second edition to make some necessary corrections,
and to add a few passages where it struck me that they would be
appropriately introduced; the passages are few, and it is my fixed
intention never to touch the work again.

I may perhaps be allowed to say a word or two here in reference to "The
Coming Race," to the success of which book "Erewhon" has been very
generally set down as due.  T