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I posted some comments about this Book from Samuel Butler titled "Erewhon"
Not easy to read on this format but it is free. Some interesting quotations...
When they found out about the watch...

"I remember that when they first found it I had thought of Paley, and how he tells us that a savage on seeing a watch would at once conclude that it was designed. True, these people were not savages, but I none the less felt that this was the conclusion they would arrive at; and I was thinking what a wonderfully wise man Archbishop Paley must have been, when I was aroused by a look of horror and dismay upon the face of the magistrate, a look which conveyed to me the impression that he regarded my watch not as having been designed but rather as the designer of himself and of the universe; or as at any rate one of the great first causes of all things."

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