It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of per…

Charles Babbage
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It is difficult to estimate the misery inflicted upon thousands of persons, and the absolute pecuniary penalty imposed upon multitudes of intellectual workers by the loss of their time, destroyed by organ-grinders and other similar nuisances. ✨ Charles Babbage (1864). A Chapter on Street Nuisances. [Extracted from Passages in the Life of a Philosopher.], p.8
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