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In 1851 Ozanam visited London to view the international exhibition at the Crystal Palace in Hyde Park, celebrating modern industry and civilization. He was deeply troubled by his sight of the same kind of poverty that Friedrich Engels had also witnessed and addressed in his The Condition of the Working Class in England (1845). Ozanam’s visit caused him to pause and reflect on the idea of material progress… “For my part, after beholding this epitome of human power at the end of nearly sixty centuries, I said to myself, ‘What! Can man do no more than this? … And I went out and was glad to see the greensward of the Park, the groups of noble trees with the sheep grazing under the shade, and all those things that industry has not made.'”

Source: Antoine Frédéric Ozanam by Raymond L. Sickinger, University of Notre Dame Press

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Red = Vincent de Paul, Blue = Frederic Ozanam

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