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["The fact," said Doctor Leete, "that you had in the poorer classes a boundless supply of serfs on whom you could impose all sorts of painful and disagreeable tasks, made you indifferent to devices to avoid the necessity for them. But now that we all have to do in turn whatever work is done for society, every individual in the nation has the same interest, and a personal one, in devices for the lightening the burden. This fact has given a prodigious impulse to labor-saving inventions in all sorts of industry. of which the combination of the maximum of comfort and minimum of trouble in household arrangements was one of the earliest results."