Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
Kropotkin explains how machinery has made hand-weaving economically unviable for basic textile goods.
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Need I say, after that, that quite to the contrary of what we are told about the British agriculturists becoming “meat-makers” instead of “wheat-growers,” no corresponding increase of live stock took place during the last twenty-five years.
But the monopoly of industrial production could not remain with England for ever.
And wherever the village-community spirit is maintained, the small industries persist, while no effort is spared to bring the small plots under higher culture.
However, a further advance is being made in order to emancipate horticulture from climate.
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