在工业生活的组织中，工厂对工人生理状态和心理状态的影响，已被完全忽视。
In the organization of industrial life the influence of the factory upon the physiological and mental state of the workers has been completely neglected.
现代工业建立于这样一种理念之上：以最低成本实现最大产出，以便个人或某一群体能够尽可能多地赚取金钱。
Modern industry is based on the conception of the maximum production at lowest cost, in order that an individual or a group of individuals may earn as much money as possible.
现代工业在扩张过程中，对操作机器的工人的真实本性毫无认知，也从未考虑过工厂强加给个体及其后代的那种人为生存方式所产生的种种影响。
It has expanded without any idea of the true nature of the human beings who run the machines, and without giving any consideration to the effects produced on the individuals and on their descendants by the artificial mode of existence imposed by the factory.
伟大的城市在建造之时，对我们毫无顾及。
The great cities have been built with no regard for us.
摩天大楼的形状与尺寸，完全取决于每平方英尺地面所能获得最大收益的必要性，以及向租户提供令其满意的办公室和公寓的必要性。
The shape and dimensions of the skyscrapers depend entirely on the necessity of obtaining the maximum income per square foot of ground, and of offering to the tenants offices and apartments that please them.
这导致了巨型建筑的涌现，在这些建筑中，过多的人群被挤压在一起。
This caused the construction of gigantic buildings where too large masses of human beings are crowded together.
文明人却喜欢这样的生活方式。
Civilized men like such a way of living.
当他们享受着居所所提供的舒适与平庸奢靡之时，他们并未意识到自己已被剥夺了生活的必需品。
While they enjoy the comfort and banal luxury of their dwelling, they do not realize that they are deprived of the necessities of life.
现代城市由怪兽般的巨型建筑，以及充斥着汽油烟雾和有毒气体、被出租车、卡车和公共汽车的噪声撕裂、被大批人群不停拥挤的昏暗狭窄街道所构成。
The modern city consists of monstrous edifices and of dark, narrow streets full of petrol fumes and toxic gases, torn by the noise of the taxicabs, lorries and buses, and thronged ceaselessly by great crowds.
显然，它从未是为了居民的福祉而规划的。
Obviously, it has not been planned for the good of its inhabitants.