Nowhere is there more disease, drunkenness, demoralisation and misery than in the manufacturing districts.
The reader must not imagine that in making these statements I wish to calumniate the spirit of modern enterprise, or to advocate a return to primitive barbarism.

All great changes produce a mixture of good and evil, and at first the evil is pretty sure to come prominently forward.
Russia is at this moment in a state of transition, and the new condition of things is not yet properly organised.

With improved organisation many of the existing evils will disappear.

Already in recent years I have noticed sporadic signs of improvement.

When factories were first established no proper arrangements were made for housing and feeding the workmen, and the consequent hardships were specially felt when the factories were founded, as is often the case, in rural districts.