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In Erewhon, the one serious reply to the "Book of the Machines" holds that machines are part of man’s own physical nature, "nothing but extra-corporeal limbs", and so denies the rival-kingdom premise of the treatise’s argument. Copy claim link
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Date 1872 · publication Role Contesting Register (kind of text) Fiction Scope of the passage Inside the novel: machines as extra-corporeal limbs, not rivals. Engagement Engages a premise. Gives a reason against the treatise’s premise that machines form a rival kingdom beyond human control: they are part of man’s own physical nature, extra-corporeal limbs of a machinate mammal. Scope and limits Both voices are fiction. The narrator says the treatise’s author was thought to have the best of it, and that Erewhon destroyed the inventions of the preceding 271 years.
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Erewhon, or Over the Range ↗ Trübner & Co. · 1872
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Source excerpt “There was only one serious attempt to answer it. Its author said that machines were to be regarded as a part of man’s own physical nature, being really nothing but extra-corporeal limbs.” Location in source Chapter XXIII, p. 221 (leaf 233), opening paragraph after the treatise ends
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Source details and check notes Authors Samuel Butler (published anonymously) Version Internet Archive scan of the 1872 printing (ErewhonOverrang00Butl, Smithsonian Libraries copy); quoted passages read on the page images of pp. 191, 196, 197, 200, 201 and 221. The OCR text was used to locate them. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-06 Language English (en) Attribution [Samuel Butler], Erewhon, or Over the Range (London: Trübner & Co., 1872), Internet Archive scan. Reuse Public domain (published 1872; the author died in 1902).. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each) under Selekoa’s quotation policy. Public-domain text. Check notes Read on the page image of p. 221 (leaf 233), re-retrieved 2026-10-06 with the hash recorded by the pre-1996 candidate search. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A passage of the document disputes the proposition or a premise it depends on. The record documents the text’s position, not who is right.
Date. Year on the title page of the inspected 1872 Trübner printing (Smithsonian Libraries copy, catalogued as the first edition). Butler’s later prefaces give March 1872.
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