¶Not in Wolff. First published in three volumes in 1873. This is the first one-volume edition, with a new preface. A novel of the future, inspired, as the author admits, by The Coming Race (by Bulwer Lytton) and Erewhon (by Samuel Butler): "By and By assumes the inherent divinity of the universe, and, consequently, the capacity of Nature to produce the highest results in character and conduct ...'"