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Home-Life of the Lancashire Factory Folk during the Cotton Famine

CHAPTER XXIII
17/83

I remember what I have read of the Godlike in man, and I look with a strange feeling upon the half-famished creatures I see hourly about me.

I cannot pass through a street but I see evidences of deep distress.

I cannot sit at home half-an-hour without having one or more coming to ask for bread to eat.

But what comes casually before me is as nothing when compared with that deeper distress which can only be seen by those who seek it.

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