Excerpt from Artisans and Machinery: The Moral and Physical Condition of the Manufacturing Population, Considered With Reference to Mechanical Substitutes for Human Labour

The entire absence of a work like the present, has long been felt as a serious evil. Nothing whatever in the shape of information is to be found, except a few pamphlets, the productions Of party warmth, or of a school of political economy, the dogmas of which are Open to insuperable objections, whilst the vast importance of the subject itself, and the numerous interests connected with it, render it highly desirable that it should be carefully examined and dispassionately considered, and that a book should be the result to which all parties may look with confidence, and that which the general reader may turn to for accurate information.

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