"... A place more destitute of all interesting
objects than Manchester, it is not easy to
conceive. In size and population it is the second
city in the kingdom, containing above fourscore
thousand [80,000] inhabitants. Imagine this
multitude crowded together in narrow streets,
the houses all built of brick and blackened with
smoke; frequent buildings among them as large
as convents, without their antiquity, without their
beauty, without their holiness; where you hear
from within, as you pass along, the everlasting
din of machinery; and where when the bell rings
it is to call wretches to their work instead of their
prayers,.
-Robert J. Southey, Letters from England, 1807
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The conditions described in this passage occurred
during the
A) Age of Discovery
B) Renaissance
C) Industrial Revolution
D) Green Revolution