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Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors… — Upton Sinclair

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Now and then a visitor wept, to be sure; but this slaughtering machine ran on, visitors or no visitors. It was like some horrible crime committed in a dungeon, all unseen and unheeded, buried out of sight and of memory.

Upton Sinclair
The Jungle · 1905
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Animal crueltyMan and animals
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1905
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Upton Sinclair
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Sinclaire, Upton. The Jungle. Dover Publications, 2001, ch. 3.
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Sinclair, Upton. "The Jungle." Appeal to Reason, 25 Feb. 1905-4 Nov. 1905.

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