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study, like that of some long-forgotten religious practices
among ourselves. Then came the careful search for what-
ever fragments could be found, and for any machines that
might have been hidden away, and also numberless treatises
were written, showing what the functions of each rediscov-
ered machine had been; all being done with no idea of using
such machinery again, but with the feelings of an English
antiquarian concerning Druidical monuments or flint ar-
row heads.
On my return to the metropolis, during the remaining
weeks or rather days of my sojourn in Erewhon I made a
resume in English of the work which brought about the
already mentioned revolution. My ignorance of technical
terms has led me doubtless into many errors, and I have
occasionally, where I found translation impossible, sub-
stituted purely English names and ideas for the original
Erewhonian ones, but the reader may rely on my general ac-
curacy. I have thought it best to insert my translation here.