Lord Wellington’s lament: Part 2, ‘warehousing the poor’
[Continued from yesterday's Part 1.]
Yesterday we started digging into an 8,500 word Atlantic article that never quite has the courage of its convictions. Echoing the Duke of Wellington’s lament about the railways –
“[Railroads will] only encourage the common people to move about needlessly.”
The Duke of Wellington, 1835
Imagine having to sit among them
– it wants [...]
