Chris Rains

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Whilst the engine runs the people must work – men, women, and children are yoked together with iron and steam. The animal machine – breakable in the best case, subject to a thousand sources of suffering – is chained fast to the iron machine, which knows no suffering and no weariness. . . .
Pandaemonium 1660–1886: The Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers
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