Note 1255 — Chapter III · : THE SOLIDARISTS
R. (Robert) Richards translation
“The enormous development of steam communication and the spread of the telegraph over the whole globe have caused modern industry to develop from a gigantic starfish, any of whose members might be destroyed without affecting the rest, into a μέγα ζῶον which is convulsed in agony by a slight injury in one part.” (Nicholson, Effects of Machinery on Wages, p. 117.)