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Samuel Butler was an English novelist and critic, best known for the satirical utopian novel Erewhon (1872) and the semi-autobiographical novel The Way of All Flesh. Both novels have remained in print since their initial publication. In other studies he examined Christian orthodoxy, evolutionary thought, and Italian art, and made prose translations of the Iliad and Odyssey that are still consulte…
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Born 4 December 1835 · Died 18 June 1902 · Q312829
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s theory of natural selection (though not from a religious point of view). Butler, like Darwin, was the grandson of a distinguished grandfather, the earlier Samuel Butler, whose biography Butler wrote. Butler believed that Darwin had not sufficiently acknowledged his own grandfather Erasmus Darwin
To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.
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“s theory of natural selection (though not from a religious point of view). Butler, like Darwin, was the grandson of a distinguished grandfather, the earlier Samuel Butler, whose biography Butler wrote. Butler believed that Darwin had not sufficiently acknowledged his own grandfather Erasmus Darwin”
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Published “Integrated analysis of multimodal single-cell data” in Cell — cited 15,181 times.
Published “2021 ESC Guidelines for the diagnosis and treatment of acute and chronic heart failure” in European Heart Journal — cited 12,211 times.
Published “<i>Planck</i> 2018 results” in Astronomy & Astrophysics — cited 13,431 times.
Published “Comprehensive Integration of Single-Cell Data” in Cell — cited 15,389 times.
Published “Integrating single-cell transcriptomic data across different conditions, technologies, and species” in Nature Biotechnology — cited 12,969 times.
Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,993 times.
And reissued by HardPress Publishing in 2013
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Revised and corrected edition 1923; considers inconsistencies between the Gospels)
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In The Humour of Homer and Other Essays and reissued in its own volume 1921 by Jonathan Cape as Samuel Butler: A Sketch
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The biologist Vernon Kellogg summed up Butler's views:
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With substantial revisions and published in its original form in 1964 as Ernest Pontifex or The Way of All Flesh)
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Died 1902-06-18.
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“To live is like to love — all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.”
Collaborating on music and writing projects in the daytime, and attending concerts and theatres in the evenings; they also frequently toured Italy and other favorite parts of Europe together
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“Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. If you look at it to admire it you are lost.”
“Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.”
Butler was shocked to learn that Pauli had benefited from similar arrangements with other men and had died wealthy, but without leaving Butler anything in his will
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And his father's death in 1886 resolved his financial problems for the last 16 years of his own life
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Butler went to Canada, "fighting fraud of every kind" in an attempt to save the company, which collapsed, reducing his own capital to £2,000
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The utopian novel Erewhon appeared anonymously, causing speculation as to who the author was
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And not touched after 1885, was so modern when it was published in 1903, that it may be said to have started a new school", particularly in its foreshadowing the use of psychoanalysis in fiction, in "his treatment of Ern
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Settling in rooms in Clifford's Inn (near Fleet Street), where he lived for the rest of his life
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And took neighbouring apartments in Clifford's Inn
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Four years after Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the editor of a New Zealand newspaper, The Press, published a letter captioned "Darwin among the Machines", written by Butler, but signed Cellarius
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Sold the Whitehall mansion and six acres to his cousin Thomas Bucknall Lloyd, but kept the remaining land surrounding the mansion
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Went up to St John's College, Cambridge, where he obtained a first in Classics in 1858
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Born 1835-12-04.
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