The Great Exhibition opened on a Monday in May and the whole world seemed to press itself against the glass walls of the Crystal House in Hyde Park, pressing its face against the glass and looking ...
William Blackwood stood in the crowd and looked at the steam engines and the cotton machines and the looms that could weave a yard of cloth in the time it took a man to tie his boots, and he thought: this is what my father wants me to buy my way into. A nation that worships machines. A nation that believes if you have enough money you can buy a seat in the House of Lords and then you can help...
0 Комментарии 0 Поделились 2 Просмотры 0 предпросмотр