What may have encouraged Charles Dickens to write this passage?
A. The enactment of the Enclosure Laws
B. The opening of the New Lanark community
C. The use of child labor in factories
D. The formation of labor unions
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"Which should have been handsome, darkened with the scowl of sullen, dogged suffering, the light of its eye quenched, its beauty gone, and its helplessness alone remaining; there were brooding, with leaden eyes, like malefactors in a jail; and there were young creatures on whom parents had descended, weeping even for the mercenary nurses they had known, and lonesome in their loneliness. With every kindly sympathy and affection blasted in its birth, with every young dream and hope starved down, with every revengeful passion that can fester in swollen hearts, eating its evil way in silence, what an incipient Hell was breeding here!"
