populace.
Even as
late as
the
beginning
of the
18th
century,
sawmills
driven by
water
overcame
the
opposition
of the
people,
supported
as it was
by
Parliament,
only with
great
difficulty.
No sooner
had Everet
in 1758
erected
the first
wool-shearing
machine
that was
driven by
water-power,
than it
was set on
fire by
100,000
people who
had been
thrown out
of work.
Fifty
thousand
workpeople,
who had
previously
lived by
carding
wool,
petitioned
