Morris, William: Gothic architecture: a lecture for the Arts and Crafts Exhibition Society ; [in the year 1889] (Hammersmith, 1893)

New Birth was grown to be a
vigorous imp, such workmen no
longer existed* By that time Eu/
rope had begun to transform the
great army of artist/craftsmen, who
had produced the beauty of her cu
ties, her churches, manor/houses
& cottages, into an enormous stock
of human machines, who had little
chance of earning a bare livelihood
if they lingered over their toil to
think ofwhat they were doing: who
were not asked to think, paid to
think, or allowed to thinkj^That
invention we have, I should hope,
about perfected by this time, and
it must soon give place to a new
one*WTiich is happy; for as long as
the invention is in use you need not
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The
crafts/
men
turned
into ma/
chines