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    THE PAUPER AND THE PEASANT SPINNER. 247

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    It Seems Probable That Poor Exi Law Regu...

    instead with the of oth the er servants sex , and of fitted men . them But this to be was the at companions first at the

    labour more cost loyed of heavil as throwing a at profession y it upon . the The the burden , women wer numerou e condemned from of e which s arlier class to they periods be who almost were , however adop escap exclusivel ting ing little this yet y

    duties tim emp e or for opportunity the direct cultivation they had , of amid their the minds multi , p at licity least of ran their no

    risk the not of , mental inconsiderable stagnation relief , and of however variety of excessive labour , ; their but now toil , that had

    ning it had the become monotony necessary of the for wheel the sp must inner have to remain been indeed ever sp most

    in-Adam weary , ing Smith , most as inj to urious the probable . We have effect again of such tlie a testimony life . " The of

    man , " says he , , " whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations , of which the effects , too , are perhaps to exert always his

    the same , or very nearly the same , has no occasion . pedients understanding for removing , or to exercise difficulties his which invention never in occur finding . He out natu ex-

    becomes rally loses so th stup erefore id and the ignorant habit of as such it is exertio possible n , and for generall a human y miserabllow

    creature to become . " The remuneration too was y , State in and other wholl of departments Clothing y out of in proportion Eng of the land same , to " in that 1715 trade obtained , , states for a , writer b that y hundred the in , on workers making " The and

    fift a piece of fine s for cloth a whole for week exportation to in , it the took wool two for itand their pounds wages twelve y person for , men or the rather afterwards entire less tim th e an onl ei loyed y g , hteenpence amounted sp to weave , collectivel a-p it iece received ; y whereas to , eig twelve hteen , the

    pounds for their share of emp labour . When we further , read that in to double m conceive aking the a number how piece a sufficient of of the both finest spinners l kind of and of decent weavers stuff , clothing it were becomes required for even hard

    native wear could ever have supp been y secured by such tedious processeseven though it is asserted in a petition presented to

    Britain dants Parliament , emp besides loy in more " 1719 While , peop that le the " than the amount weaving all the of manufactures trade and to be its of obtained depen Great - wages

    b to y about the women twopence . engaged per in day them , would , still almost further incline reduced us by to 1 solve 720 , the problem by supposing that this section of the population at

    least quite b had eyond reall their y learnt means to dispense and while with providing a luxury raiment seeming for ly

    others , had abjured its use , themselves .

    _# iven It was to about our Silk this manufactur period that e an by extraordinary the introduction impetus into this was

    The Pauper And The Peasant Spinner. 247

    THE PAUPER AND THE PEASANT SPINNER . 247

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Dec. 1, 1863, page 247, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01121863/page/31/