Natural Style: Decorating with an Earth-Friendly Point of View

No doubt it will seem grotesque enough to you—and wildly incredible!—and yet even now there are existing circumstances to point that way. There is a tendency to utilize underground space for the less ornamental purposes of civilization; there is the Metropolitan Railway in London, for instance, there are new electric railways, there are subways, there are underground workrooms and restaurants, and they increase and multiply. Evidently, I thought (очевидно, думал я), this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky (эта тенденция росла до того момента, как Промышленность постепенно потеряла свое право, /данное ей/ при рождении /свыше/; sky — небо, небеса). I mean that it had gone deeper and deeper into larger and ever larger underground factories (я имею в виду, что она уходила все глубже и глубже во все более и более крупные подземные заводы), spending a still-increasing amount of its time therein, till, in the end (проводя там все большее количество времени, пока, наконец)—! Even now (даже и теперь), does not an East-end worker live in such artificial conditions as practically to be cut off from the natural surface of the earth (разве ист-эндский рабочий не живет в таких искусственных условиях, что практически отрезан от естественной поверхности земли)? evidently [`evIdqntlI], industry [`IndAstrI], natural [`nxC(q)r(q)l] Evidently, I thought, this tendency had increased till Industry had gradually lost its birthright in the sky ...»