Friedrich Engels is a believable and trustworthy man. I know this for several reasons. One reason he is a trusted person is because he lived during the time of these events. Another reason for him being a trusting source is because he experienced or because he saw other people in these conditions. He is also a trusted source because he was a well respected philosopher. To help him with his research he met Mary Burns who was his guide through Manchester and showed him districts with terrible conditions for his research. Mary Burns was a worker who experienced the problems in Manchester. Engels was appalled at the conditions in Manchester. He claimed that some parts were almost impossible for people to live in. He said that he was astounded by how much filth there was and little amount of room for a persons living quarters. The reason Engels wrote about the living conditions in Manchester was to show people how bad some of the districts were and to tell people if they wish "to see in how little space a human being
can move, how little air - and such
air! - he can breathe,
how little of civilisation he may share and yet live". Manchester was a manufacturing town for England, one of the largest actually. It had many districts separating the workers not in the same field from each other.Some districts were kept better than others. For example one of the worst courts to live was Allen's Court . The filth was so bad the sanitary police had evacuate it to clean it. In order to persuade me Engels often used negative words live filth, and dirty when he was talking about Manchester.
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