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The question always is, has everything been done to make the sufferings of these exceptions as small as possible? Or, in the triumphs of the crowded procession, have the helpless been trampled on, instead of being gently lifted aside out of the roadway of the conqueror, whom they had no power to accompany on his march?

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— Gaskell, Alleviating the sufferings of the losers in industrialization