that they
had
pit-coal,
or that
looms were
improved,
unless
Watt and
Stephenson
had taught
them to
work
force-pumps
and
power-looms,
by steam.
The great
strides
were all
taken
within the
last
hundred
years. The
Life of
Sir Robert
Peel, who
died, the
other day,
the model
Englishman,
very
properly
has, for a
frontispiece
a drawing
of the
spinning-jenny,
which wove
the web of
his
fortunes.
Hargreaves
invented
the
spinning-jenny,
and died
in a
workhouse.
Arkwright
