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Excerpt from Fifty Years of Work Without Wages: Laborare Est Orare
Thus have we used practical science to its utmost, and our mechanical engineering work shops are without rivals. Of course we pay a big price for all this. On the coal-beds of Lanca shire and the West Riding of Yorkshire we have a population of some seven millions, and no tree - nothing that the Almighty could call a tree, though there are thousands Of blackened sticks which console and delight us with a few months Of Spring leafage. We have to go far afield for pure, unspoiled nature. On the other hand, the materialistic advantage is undoubted, for not only have we bred an army of great capitalists, but the mass of the people are well housed on the whole, and their wages are, as a rule, good and steady. One supposes there is no other industrial community that is uniformly so well off on the bread-and-butter side of existence.
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