In treating this subject, it was impossible not to recollect, with gratitude, the pleasing picture, which, in his Poem of The Fleece, the excellent and amiable Dyer has given of the influences of manufacturing industry upon the face of this Island. He wrote at a time when machinery was first beginning to be introduced, and his benevolent heart prompted him to augur from it nothing but good. Truth has compelled me to dwell upon the baneful effects arising out of an ill-regulated and excessive application of powers so admirable in themselves.—W. W. (1814).
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Binding herself by statute.
The discovery of Dr. Bell affords marvellous facilities for carrying this into effect; and it is impossible to over-rate the benefit which might accrue to humanity from the universal application of this simple engine under an enlightened and conscientious government.—W. W. (1814).
FOOTNOTES:
[LJ] The Hurricane, a Theosophical and Western Eclogue, etc., by William Gilbert, London, 1797. Compare Wordsworth's notes to The Brothers.—ED.
[LK] In this edition, it finds a more appropriate place in the Prose Works.—ED.