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choose , birth-men by virtue of purchased titles . Some few manufacture men have enlarged minds , but they are only exceptions ; they mostly resemble Louis Philippe , the king of the French . They would sacrifice the whole world for their own
aggrandisement and profit . There are two classes of manufacture-men who bitterly hate each other . One class manufactures cotton and woollen clothing , tools , utensils , and other necessary articles , and the other class manufactures articles of food , as corn , vegetables , and bread , beef , mutton , &c . The food manufacturers are an excessively absurd race of people , for they ludicrously enough assume that they especially manufacture the necessaries of life , as if , amongst a civilizeu people , life would be worth having without clothing , tools , utensils ,
and refinements , as well as mere food . The manufacturers of clothing , tools , and . utensils , are also absurd in their way , for they imagine that the great end of human existence is to gather together large masses of material , and work it up for the sake of trade . They are so averse to idleness , that they will work for nothing rather than be at rest . Both classes regard the mechanics and labourers whom they employ as a
species of troublesome white slaves , whom they , unfortunately , cannot do without . They expect submission from them , and a due performance of their duties , without taking pains to educate them , or give them moral habits . The labourers of the food manufacturers are the most ignorant race , for the nature of their employments prevents knowledge from growing
amongst them , by reason of their isolation from each other . The mechanics , by reason of their continual clashing of minds one against another , are continually gaining knowledge . In their first outbreak from wild ignorance at Manchester , they so alarmed the manufacture-men that they made a massacre among them . This Massacre was approved of by the
Legislature , and hah YET TO BE DISAPPROVED AND BRANDED WITH its tiuje name . It is true that ignorance and cowardice were the cause of the massacre being perpetrated , but it was and is a blot upon the legislature , that it is recorded as approved of . The system of manufacture is such , that it keeps the masters , who work with large capitals , nearly as ignorant as the workmen without any . He who watches outside the dungeon
door is nearly as much a prisoner as the wretch inside . The profits of the manufacturers depend much on watching the time of their daily workmen , and this is not efficiently done by hired taskmasters , who have no direct interest in it . Consequently the manufacturer sends his sons to school till they attain the age of fourteen years , and then turns them into the factory to watch the workmen , and keep the same hours . Thus they acquire the tones , language , and manners of the workmen ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1836, page 293, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2657/page/29/
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