INTRO D UC TI O N 
XXV 
Democracy are likewise favourable to the advance of Social 
ism. 
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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