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erewhon

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noun

  1. a satirical novel written by Samuel Butler (1872) describing a fictitious land

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If machinery is detrimental to biological fitness, the machine must be destroyed, as it was in Samuel Butler's "Erewhon."
Margaret SangerThe Pivot of CivilizationProject Gutenberg ebook #1689