About Samuel Butler
Samuel Butler was a Victorian author and satirist best known for his novel Erewhon, which presented an imaginative critique of industrial society and Darwin's evolutionary theory. He championed unconventional thinking and challenged Victorian values through wit and irony, famously declaring that "life is one long process of getting tired." Butler's sharp observations about human nature and society made him a provocative intellectual figure whose ideas influenced later modernist writers and thinkers throughout the 20th century.
Did you know? Butler was a sharp critic of Charles Darwin's theory of evolution, arguing that Darwin had unfairly downplayed the contributions of earlier thinkers and that evolution involved an element of conscious will rather than blind chance.