Creating Our Successors

Are we not ourselves creating our successors in the supremacy of the earth? daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their organisation, daily giving them greater skill and supplying more and more of that self-regulating self-acting power which will be better than any intellect?

Erewhon (1872) by Samuel Butler

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Context: The treatise argues that machines are already served by an army of human attendants.

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Source: Chapter XXIV: The Machines—continued

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