Salisbury rendered laborers indispensable yet immobile in his body politic

Evidence

Each part of this vast society was indispensable to its unified purpose and function. Thus, “take away the support of the feet … and it cannot move forward by its own power, but must creep painfully and shamefully on its hands, or else be moved by means of brute animals.” — Carolyn Merchant, The Death of Nature, 340

Categorization

• SEED: The image of society as a centipede whose feet cannot act drives an essay on how metaphors quietly naturalize class hierarchy — workers as mere support with no agency.