"Perhaps the summertime suggests to you thoughts of the country, visions of green fields, and mountains, and sparkling lakes. It had no such suggestions for the people in the yards. The great packing machine ground on remorselessly, without thinking of green fields; and the men and women and children who were part of it were not supposed to think of them either."
Description:Chapter Ten in Upton Sinclair's original serial for Appeal to Reason, the unexpurgated version of what became "The Jungle."
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