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In the first great age of the substitution of machine for human
toil Carlyle and the Pre-Raphaelites promulgated the doctrine of
Work as a mystical social communion, and millionaires like
Ruskin and Morris toiled like navvies for aesthetic reasons. Marx
was an impressionable recipient of these doctrines. Most
bizarre of all the reversals in the great Victorian age of
mechanization and high moral tone is the counter-strategy of
Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear, whose nonsense has proved
exceedingly durable. While the Lord Cardigans were taking their
blood baths in the Valley of Death, Gilbert and Sullivan were
announcing that the boundary break had been passed.