Of what use was the machinery by which one man could weave as much cloth as a thousand a century before when there were as many ragged, shivering human beings as ever?
The teacher — in Edward Bellamy’s Equality
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- Equality (1897); Exact wording and attribution checked. An unnamed fictional teacher’s rhetorical question during a discussion of machinery and inequality; a statement within the novel, not a verified economic statistic.
- Equality (1897)
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