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Thomas Carlyle: Fighting with steel murder-tools

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Thomas Carlyle
From Past and Present

Fighting with steel murder-tools is surely a much uglier operation than Working, take it how you will….Under the sky is no uglier spectacle than two men with clenched teeth, and hellfire eyes, hacking one another’s flesh; converting precious living bodies, and priceless living souls, into nameless masses of putrescence, useful only for turnip-manure. How did a Chivalry ever come out of that; how anything that was not hideous, scandalous, infernal?

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