text:  For what is it that by means of great capital working with the powers which their immortal discoveries have conferred manufacturing industry has become? Why it has all or nearly all run into huge mills or other establishments in which machinery at a cost of thirty forty or fifty thousand pounds is erected and a crown of needy women and children are employed in ordinary times at the lowest wages which can support existence with a few men at a guinea or twenty-five shillings a-week to direct and superintend their labours