“ City conditions of work and living are so artificial that instincts sometimes rebel against their unnaturalness. ”
Henry Ford, My Life and Work (1922). copy citation
| Author | Henry Ford |
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| Source | My Life and Work |
| Topic | instinct work |
| Date | 1922 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/7213/pg7213-images.html |
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“A great city is really a helpless mass. Everything it uses is carried to it. Stop transport and the city stops. It lives off the shelves of stores. The shelves produce nothing. The city cannot feed, clothe, warm, or house itself. City conditions of work and living are so artificial that instincts sometimes rebel against their unnaturalness.
And finally, the overhead expense of living or doing business in the great cities is becoming so large as to be unbearable. It places so great a tax upon life that there is no surplus over to live on.”
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