Moreover, the peasant-proprietors themselves, after having enjoyed a period of undeniable prosperity, began in their turn to feel the pressure of bad times, and their children were compelled to look for employment in manufactures.
He notes the economic pressures faced by peasant proprietors and their children during tough times.
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The small bicycle workshops, with the hundreds of small improvements which they introduced, have been under our very eyes the primary cells out of which the great industry of the motor cars, and later on of the aeroplanes, has grown up.
It is a fact that chemical manures, without organic manure, seldom prove to be sufficient.
And at the same time we learn that immense quantities of land go every year out of culture, to be transformed into game reserves for rich Englishmen and foreigners.
The small industries are as much a distinctive feature of the British industry as its few immense factories and ironworks.
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