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〈 Coal At The Bottom Of Things
〈 The Demon Of Overproduction
〈 The Quest For Arcadia
〈 Managerial Utopia
〈 The Positive Method
〈 Plato's Guardians
〈 Far-Sighted Businessmen
〈 Coal Gives The Coup De Grâce
〈 The Spectre Of Uncontrolled Breeding
〈 Global Associations Of Technique
〈 Labor es Expendable
〈 Burying Children Alive
〈 The End petition
〈 America Is Massified
〈 German Mind Science
Wanting coal we could not have smelted the iron needed to make our engines, nor have worked our
engines when we had got them. But take away the engines and the great towns vanish like a dream.
Manufacturers give place to agriculture and pasture, and not ten men can live where now ten
thousand
– Thomas Huxley (1875)
Coal introduced a new race of men who work with machinery instead of their hands, who cluster
together in cities instead of spreading over the land, men who trade with those of other nations as
readily as with those of their own town...men whose market is no longer the city or country but the
world itself.
– Henry DeBeers Gibbins (1903)
Coal At The Bottom Of Things
Where I grew up the hand of coal was everywhere. Great paddle-wheel boats pushed it up and down the river
every day, driven by the heat of coal fire. Columns of barges–eight, ten, twelve to a steamboat–were mon a
sight to me as police cars are to the modern Manhattan where I live a half-century later. Those barges glide
majestically through my memory, piled high with coal gleaming in the sunshine, glistening in the rain, coal destined
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for steel mills, coke ovens, machine works, chemical plants, coal yards and coal chutes everywhere. Long before
we saw the lead barges push