1872
Selekoa’s 7 records dated 1872, in date order, grouped by topic.
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Ideas & lineages 7 records
Dated to 1872 only
· publication · dated to the year
The revised edition of Erewhon names Samuel Butler as author, and its preface, signed by him, speaks of Erewhon as his own work. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Erewhon’s fictional treatise fears the extraordinary rapidity of mechanical change compared with the slow advance of animals and plants. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Erewhon’s fictional treatise says that whoever ceases to advance machinery is left behind in the race of competition. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Erewhon’s fictional treatise calls dependence "the art of the machines—they serve that they may rule". Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Erewhon’s fictional treatise argues that the little consciousness machines have now gives no security against their ultimate development of consciousness. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
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. Evidence ↗· publication · dated to the year
Erewhon’s fictional "Book of the Machines" argues that machines are advancing faster than any class of beings before them and should be checked before people lose the power to check them, that dependence is turning the servant into the master, and that human moral influence cannot be trusted to rule them. Evidence ↗