Note 902 — Chapter XIII · THE FORM-WORLD OF ECONOMIC LIFE (A) MONEY

Herein lies the difference between this slavery and the sugar-slavery of our own Baroque. The latter represents a threshold phase of our machine industry, an organization of “living” energy, which began with man-fuel, but presently passed over to coal-fuel; and slavery came to be considered immoral only when coal had established itself. Looked at from this angle, the victory of the North in the American Civil War (1865) meant the economic victory of the concentrated energy of coal over the simple energy of the muscles.