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| file = human_blood.txt
| source = lit_arch
| date = 1872 CE
| location = [[Star World A]]
| terminal = A08
}}<blockquote>It is said by some that our blood is composed of infinite living agents which go up and down the highways and byways of our bodies as people in the streets of a city. &/Ecc1 {{HexString|41 6E 64 20 74 68 65 20 57 6F 72 64|And the Word}} One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. function(#{{HexString|7761 7320 6D61 6465 20 66 6C 65 73 68|was made flesh}}

) And the sleep of the town, how life-like! with its change in the circulation.

[BUTLER, SAMUEL]

We are misled by considering any complicated machine as a single thing; in truth it is a city or society, each member of which was bred truly after its kind.</blockquote>

== Notes ==

* The primary text comes from Samuel Butler's 1872 novel, ''Erewhon; or, Over the Range''. More specifically, it is a passage taken from [https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Erewhon/Chapter_24 "Chapter 24: The Machines"].
* The unencrypted text ("And the Word was made flesh" when assembled) comes from John 1:14 from the [https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%201%3A14&version=KJV King James Bible]:<blockquote>And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father,) full of grace and truth.</blockquote>