ISBN: 9780217034005

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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Such was the real cause of difficulty. England still continued an almost purely agricultural country â?" exporting food, and importing almost every description of manufactures from the wealthy people of the countries bordering on the Rhine. There was, therefore, little power of association, Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www. million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: Such was the real cause of difficulty. England still continued an almost purely agricultural country â?" exporting food, and importing almost every description of manufactures from the wealthy people of the countries bordering on the Rhine. There was, therefore, little power of association, little development of individuality, and little power among her people to avail themselves of the priceless treasures of fuel, and of ore, beneath their feet. In the absence of manufactures, agriculture could make but little progress; and hence it was, that the English husbandman was poorly clothed and badly housed, while eating "barley and rye, brown bread," and " preferring it to white, as abiding longer in the stomach, and not so soon digested " â?" the rich and great, meanwhile, living in houses destitute of glass windows, and the drawing-room of the queen herself being supplied with rushes in place of carpets. Cultivation was then, in a great degree, confined to the poorer soilsâ?"constantly diminishing in their yield, because of the necessity for sending their products to the distant market. The supply of food increased but little, and the circulation of society was languidâ?"consumption following slowly after production. Population, however, gradually increased â?" with a growing power of combination, whose effect is visible in the fact, that, from this time forward, we meet with no more laws requiring the laborer to work at wages fixed by act of Parliament. At the opening of the eighteenth century, we find a population of about five millions â?" having scarcely more than doubled itself in three hundred years. With increased numbers, there had been increase of power to command the services of nature, Books, Business & Economics~~Economics~~General, Principles-of-Social-Science~~Henry-Charles-Carey, , , , , , , , , , General Books LLC<

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