Are We Nothing but Living Machines?

http://historymatters.gmu.edu/d/6539/

I really like this article it is an excerpt from the New york Sun from 1863. The author is asking are we nothing but living machines? She is writing about the long hours she works, the low pay she receives and women left behind while the men have to go to war. She answered an ad in the paper and was hired to make a dozen hats a day at a low wage. She took the job because she didn't want to starve. We could be reading about today. I really like the following quote from the article: "Are we nothing but living machines, to be driven at will for the accommodation of a set of heartless, yes, I may say soulless people...? They ought to read the commandment, “Thou shall not kill.” But they are murderers that die on feather beds...."

This article is timeless.