120 On the Rise and Progress 
had taken place. It could hardly be expected 
indeed, that they could be effectually re- 
strained by moral motives, composed as they 
were of the lowest order of the people; and 
being in the habit of seeing such restraints 
disregarded by many of their superiors in va- 
rious ranks of society. Exercising however 
great labour and ingenuity in carrying into 
execution their various inventions, they soon 
found that if they could readily get a black- 
smith’s or a carpenter’s assistance, they would 
be able to get their little apparatus more sub- 
stantially made. ‘This induced them to re- 
move to villages, where such men were to be 
found, and receiving from them the assistance 
so much wanted, the improvements made 
more rapid progress. By having their imple- 
ments more mechanically constructed they 
soon discovered that they might be so far en- 
larged, that twenty pairs of hand-cards (ad- 
justed by screws to a cylinder and taken off 
alternately by hand), might be wrought by 
one person, and forty spindles by another. 
During all this time there was little to dis- 
turb the Continent: of Europe. Their im- 
provements could scarcely keep pace with the 
increased demand for manufactures, and of 
course there was but little diminution in their 
price. 
