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Excerpt from Joseph Pennell's Pictures of War Work in England: Reproductions of a Series of Drawings and Lithographs of the Munition Works Made by Him With the Permission and Authority of the British Government With Notes by the Artist
Falstaff was a creation perhaps, or the Sistine sibyls; there we have indubitably an end ceiyed and sought and achieved; but did these inventors and business organizers do more than heed certain unavoidable imperatives Seeking coaltheywereoigedtomineinacertainway; seekingsteel,theyhadtodothisandthisand not that and that; seeking profit they had to obey the imperative of economy. So little did they plan their ends that most of these manufac turersspeakwithakindofastonishmentofthe deadly use to which their works are put. They find themselves making the new war as a man might wake out of some drugged condition to find himself strangling his mother.
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