Excerpt from History of the Middle and Working Classes: With a Popular Exposition of the Economical and Political Principles Which Have Influenced the Past and Present Condition of the Industrious Orders Opulent commercial, and a numerous and intelligent operative class - sudden alternations' of prosperity and depression - extremes of wealth and destitution -the increase of crime - the spread of education political excitement - conicting claims of capital and industry - divided and independent opinions on every public question, with many other anomalies peculiar to our existing state. Another result of the transition from agricul tural to manufacturing supremacy, has been the creation of not only new interests and new questions of discussion, but also a vast enlargement of the circle bf inquirers. Questions of government, of law, of commerce, and industry, are not now agitated and solved by a limited and prescriptive class - the clergy, the educated and learned - but by that powerful and multitudinous body, forming at least nineteen-twentieths of the community, denominated the industrious orders. No monopoly of intelli gence is recognised; the dissemination of opinions, as the vend of commodities, is claimed to be free and unprivileged. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work.

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