Erewhon Revisited

I forget when but not very long after I had published ?Erewhon? in 1872 it occurred to me to ask myself what course events in Erewhon would probably take after Mr. Higgs as I suppose I may now call him had made his escape in the balloon with Arowhena. Given a people in the conditions supposed to exist in Erewhon and given the apparently miraculous ascent of a remarkable stranger into the heavens with an earthly bride?what would be the effect on the people generally?" This musing comes from the author Samuel Butler."