INTRO  D  UC  TI  O  N

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Democracy  are  likewise  favourable  to  the  advance  of  Socialism. ­

Consider  how  the  industrial  work  of  the  Middle  Ages  was
^rried  on.  Take,  for  example,  the  woollen  trade,  which  in
England  and  in  Flanders  exported  its  produce  to  all  parts  of
the  world,  and  which  created  powerful  and  populous  towns.
We  can  see  the  home  life  of  the  artisan  with  the  help  of  some
graphic  records.  Seated  at  the  loom,  he  weaves  the  cloth
while  his  children  prepare  the  distaff  by  his  side,  and  his  wife
spins  at  her  wheel.  In  this  way  the  wl^ole  work  was  performed
at  his  domestic  hearth.  The  master  worked  with  his  own
hands,  aided  by  his  family  and  some  apprentices.  He  needed
^  capital.  The  education,  the  social  position,  the
way  of  living  and  thinking  of  the  master  and  his  men  were  very
2'^:,  Th«  privileges  of  the  guilds  might  produce  some
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