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Source: Flora Tristan, French socialist and women's rights advocate, her
published journal, 1842.

Unless you have visited the manufacturing towns and seen the workers of
Manchester, you cannot appreciate the physical suffering and moral
degradation of this class of the population. Most workers lack clothing, bed,
furniture, fuel, wholesome food- even potatoes! They spend from 12 to 14
hours each day shut up in low-ceilinged rooms where with every breath of foul
air they absorb fibers of cotton, wool, or flax, or particles of copper, lead or
iron. They live suspended between an insufficiency of food and an excess of
strong drink; they are all wizened, sickly, and emaciated, their bodies thin and
frail, their limbs feeble, their complexions pale, their eyes dead. If you visit a
factory, it is easy to see that the comfort and welfare of the workers have never
entered the builder's head. O God! Can progress be bought only at the cost of
men's lives?