England's Ideal and Other Papers on Social Subjects by Edward Carpenter

Author:Edward Carpenter [Carpenter, Edward]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781297394430
Google: aCw2rgEACAAJ
Publisher: Creative Media Partners, LLC
Published: 2015-02-19T06:01:14+00:00

NOTES

1 “.…People who roll about in their fine equipages scarcely knowing what to do with themselves or what ails them, and some of whom occasionally run to such places as ours to have their carriage linings or cushions altered, or to know if they can be altered, as they don’t feel quite comfortable. I often think ‘God help them’, for no one else can.….”

I insert this extract just to show how these things are regarded from the side which does not usually find expression. It is from a letter written by an elderly and gentle-hearted man employed in a carriage factory.

1 I do not mean here to imply that the working masses of our great towns by any means fulfil this condition. In fact it is notorious that their health is even worse than that of the wealthy classes. Thrust down into squalor by the very effort of others climbing to luxury, the unnaturalness and misery of their lives is the direct counterpart and inseparable accompaniment of the unnaturalness of the lives of the rich. That the great masses of our population to-day are in this unhealthy state does not however disprove the statement in the text—i.e., that the vast majority of mankind must live in direct contact with Nature—rather it would indicate that the present conditions can only be of brief duration.

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