Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Fair Haven: A Work in Defence of the Miraculous Element, in Our Lord's Ministry Upon Earth, Both as Against Rationalistic Impugners and Certain Orthodox Defenders, by the Late John Pickard Owen, With a Memoir of the Author by William Bickersteth Owen
All Flesh. While Butler was in New Zealand (1859 64) he had leisure for prosecuting his Biblical studies, the result of which he published in 1865, after his return to England, in an anonymous pamphlet en titled The Evidence for the Resurrection of Jesus Christ as given by the Four Evangelists critically examined. This pamphlet passed unnoticed; prob ably only a few copies were printed and it is now extremely rare. After the publication of Erewhon in 1872, Butler returned once more to theology, and made his anonymous pamphlet the basis of the far more elaborate Fair Haven, which was originally published as the posthumous work of a certain John Pickard Owen, preceded by a memoir of the deceased author by his supposed brother, William Bickersteth Owen. It is possible that the memoir was the fruit of a suggestion made by Miss Savage, an able and witty woman with whom Butler corresponded at the time. Miss Savage was so much impressed by the narrative power displayed in Erewhon that she urged Butler to write a novel, and we shall probably not be far wrong in regarding the biography of John Pickard Owen as Butleristriaj trip - a prelude to The Way of All Flesh, which he began in I873.
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