Endnotes

1. See Handel’s compositions for the harpsichord, published by Litolf, p. 78. ↩

2. The myth above alluded to exists in Erewhon with changed names, and considerable modifications. I have taken the liberty of referring to the story as familiar to ourselves. ↩

3. What a safe word “relation” is; how little it predicates! yet it has overgrown “kinsman.” ↩

4. The root alluded to is not the potato of our own gardens, but a plant so near akin to it that I have ventured to translate it thus. Apropos of its intelligence, had the writer known Butler he would probably have said⁠—

   “He knows what’s what, and that’s as high,
   As metaphysic wit can fly.”

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5. Since my return to England, I have been told that those who are conversant about machines use many terms concerning them which show that their vitality is here recognised, and that a collection of expressions in use among those who attend on steam engines would be no less startling than instructive. I am also informed, that almost all machines have their own tricks and idiosyncrasies; that they know their drivers and keepers; and that they will play pranks upon a stranger. It is my intention, on a future occasion, to bring together examples both of the expressions in common use among mechanicians, and of any extraordinary exhibitions of mechanical sagacity and eccentricity that I can meet with⁠—not as believing in the Erewhonian Professor’s theory, but from the interest of the subject. ↩