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Read the quotation from Victorian philosopher Thomas Carlyle. "Not the external and physical alone is now managed by machinery, but the internal and spiritual also...Men are grown mechanical in head and in heart, as well as in hand." What, according to Carlyle, has brought about this spiritual deprivation? political conflict the industrial revolution expansion into other territories the demands of prudence

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the industrial revolution

Carlyle says that not only are men's physical and external lives governed by machines, but their spirits and souls are now as well. The industrial revolution brought about much more machinery and 'progress' in technology, though Carlyle thinks that it is all a terrible thing and ruining people's minds.
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