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The industrial revolution, which had begun by giving more wealth to nearly everybody, had reached its second stage in which enormous, yearly increasing accumulations of surplus capital were falling into a small, yearly diminishing number of hands; the need of the time was for new sources of raw material, new markets, but more than anything, for new fields of profitable investment.
- Evelyn Waugh, Waugh in Abyssinia, pp.553-4 in Waugh Abroad
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