Thomas Carlyle Quote

To all men it is evident that the social interests of one hundred and fifty Millions of us depend on the mysterious industry there carried on; and likewise that the dissatisfaction with it is great, universal, and continually increasing in intensity,—in fact, mounting, we might say, to the pitch of settled despair.

Latter-Day Pamphlets (1850) - Downing Street (April 1, 1850)