human
You must remember, said the old antiquary,
gpt
Strange, neighbour? Well, I don't know. I have often heard my old kinsman say the one aim of all people before our time was to avoid work, or at least they thought it was; so of course the work which their daily life forced them to do, seemed more like work than that which they seemed to choose for themselves.
human
True enough, said Morsom.
gpt
Anyhow, they soon began to find out their mistake, and that only slaves and slave-holders could live solely by setting machines going.
human
Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?--a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate--'nature,' as people used to call it--as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make 'nature' their slave, since they thought 'nature' was something outside them.
gpt
Surely, said Morsom;
human
When did this new revolution gather head?
gpt
In the half-century that followed the Great Change, said Morsom,
human
he said,
gpt
They are very curious, said I, taking up a piece of pottery from amongst the specimens which the antiquary was showing us;
human
Yes, said Morsom,
gpt
said he, leading me on a little,