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Excerpt from The Progress of the Working Classes in the Last Half Century
Thus in each of the three divisions of the United Kingdom there is a material decline, and most of all in Ireland, the magni tude of the decline there being no doubt due to the fact that the figures are for a period just after the great famine. But how remote we seem to be from those days of famine.
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