"Nullum numen abest si sit prudentia; nos, te, Nos facimus, Fortuna, Deam, coeloque locamus.” - JUVENAL, Sat. x, 366.

"Oh, wondrous scheme decreed of old on high,
At once to take and give,
He that is born begins to die,

And he that dies to live:

For life is death, and death is life,
A harmony of endless strife,
And mode of universal growth
Is seen alike in both."

Chorus in Narcissus.

CALIFORNIA

With a figure in the window of Butler's room

From a photograph by Samuel Butler, 1888

by

SAMUEL BUTLER

LONDON: JONATHAN CAPE

NEW YORK: E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY

MCMXXIV

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