Excerpt from Industrial England in the Middle of the Eighteenth Century This little book grew out of a paper read last April at a meeting of the Royal Society of Arts, in which the author endeavoured to describe the industrial condition of the country at the time of the foundation of the Society in 1754. The task turned out to be one of considerable interest, and the available material soon proved itself to be in excess of the limits even of a paper far exceeding the normal length. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.