[Day2476 2021-07-06]
Lesson16-1 The modern city现代城市
In the organization of industrial life
the influence of the factory
upon the physiological and mental state
of the workers has been completely neglected.
Modern industry is based on the
conception of the maximum production
at lowest cost, in order that an
individual or a group of individuals
may earn as much money as possible.
It has expanded without any idea
of the true nature of the human beings
who run the machines, and without giving an
consideration to the effects produced
on the individuals and on their
descendants by the artificial mode
of existence imposed by the factory.
The great cities have been built
with no regard for us.