Show Wrote for Posterity When Samuel Butler the English author wrote his first book the pub pub- public public public lic received it coldly in other words it remained unread and unnoticed Butler declared he would write no nomore nomore nomore more for his contemporaries but would write for posterity only And sure enough he was right He died in 1902 he and his books almost unknown and immediately after his death his took the world by storm and he was placed among the great writers of his generation |