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Re: Appreciating our past benefactors
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Originally Posted by garinda
It's a fact that in 1870, at the height of our local industrialists' benefaction, 9.6% of children employed in the cotton mills were aged under thirteen years old.
Perhaps they did gave as true alruists, and apart fron the odd thing named after them, they didn't want lasting memorials to glorify their generosity. For instance when paying for stained glass windows in our local churches, such as St. John's.
Or perhaps they might have felt uncomfortable listening to sermons in church, in which Jesus said 'Suffer the Little Children to Come Unto Me', knowing their fortune was in part thanks to the suffering of child labourers.
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Alruists should of course read altruists.
Why do glaring mistakes only magically appear, after the edit button has vanished?
 
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