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Updated: May 13, 2025

To pretend to be the workmen's friends, by keeping down the price of bread, when all they want thereby is to keep down wages, and increase profits, and in the meantime to widen the gulf between the working man and all that is time-honoured, refined, and chivalrous in English society, that they may make the men their divided slaves, that is-perhaps half unconsciously, for there are excellent men amongst them the game of the Manchester School."

Charles Kingsley - Alton Locke, Tailor and Poet: An Autobiography