« Thirty or forty factories rise on the tops of the hills . . . Their six storeys tower up; their huge enclosures give notice from afar of the centralisation of industry. The wretched dwellings of the poor are scattered haphazard around them. Round them stretches land uncultivated but without the charm of rustic nature, and still without the amenities of a town. The soil has been taken away. scratched and torn up in a thousand places, but it is not yet covered with the habitations of men. The land is given over to industry’s use. The roads which connect the still-disjointed limbs of the great city, show, like the rest, every sign of hurried and unfinished work; the incidental activity of a population bent on gain, which seeks to amass gold so as to have everything else all at once.
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