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Pre-industrial domestic weavers lived a life not worthy of human beings
Drawn from what Friedrich Engels said
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- Friedrich Engels German philosopher and social scientist (1820 to 1895)
They were comfortable in their silent vegetation, and but for the industrial revolution they would never have emerged from this existence, which, cosily romantic as it was, was nevertheless not worthy of human beings.
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