Eye-witness Account Of Industrialization
In your doc, continue your list of "effects of industrialization"
| ". . . A place more destitute of all interesting objects than
Manchester, it is not easy to conceive. In size and population it
is the second city in the kingdom, containing above fourscore
thousand [80,000] inhabitants. Imagine this multitude crowded
together in narrow streets, the houses all built of brick and
blackened with smoke; frequent buildings among them as large as
convents, without their antiquity, without their beauty, without
their holiness; where you hear from within, as you pass along, the
everlasting din of machinery; and where when the bell rings it is
to call wretches to their work instead of their prayers, . . .
" - Robert J. Southey, Letters from England, 1807 |
