382 THE REIGN OF LAW. 



to new motives, and new motives called into play 

 the latent energies of Mind. The time and the 

 cost of collecting the products of so many scattered 

 labourers enhanced unduly the cost of manufacture, 

 and even when their remuneration was reduced to 

 the lowest point compatible with existence, that cost 

 was still too high. Something was imperatively 

 required to economise the work of human hands — 

 some more elaborate contrivance to make that 

 work go farther than before. And so Hargrave's 

 invention arose, not before the time.* And when 

 his Spinning Jenny had been invented, a still more 

 elaborate and powerful combination of mechanical 

 adjustments was soon perfected in the hands of 

 Arkwright.f When his Spinning Frame was in- 

 vented, and when Crompton's farther invention of 

 the Mule Jenny speedily followed,! the new order 

 of things had been fairly inaugurated. The great 

 change had come, and the survivance of the an- 

 cient domestic industries of so many centuries 

 was no longer possible. 



And just as Hargraves and Arkwright and 

 Crompton were inventing the new machines 

 * 1765-7- t 1786. J 1769. 



