“ If the cunning work of man be urged beyond its power of endurance, it has within it the elements of its own revenge ”
Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit (1844). copy citation
| Author | Charles Dickens |
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| Source | Martin Chuzzlewit |
| Topic | revenge endurance |
| Date | 1844 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/968/968-h/968-h.htm |
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“And now the engine yells, as it were lashed and tortured like a living labourer, and writhed in agony. A poor fancy; for steel and iron are of infinitely greater account, in this commonwealth, than flesh and blood. If the cunning work of man be urged beyond its power of endurance, it has within it the elements of its own revenge; whereas the wretched mechanism of the Divine Hand is dangerous with no such property, but may be tampered with, and crushed, and broken, at the driver’s pleasure. Look at that engine! It shall cost a man more dollars in the way of penalty and fine, and satisfaction of the outraged law, to deface in wantonness that senseless mass of metal, than to take the lives of twenty human creatures!”
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