mule; a
creation,
the
delight of
mill-owners,
and
"destined,"
they said,
"to
restore
order
among the
industrious
classes";
a machine
requiring
only a
child's
hand to
piece the
broken
yarns. As
Arkwright
had
destroyed
domestic
spinning,
so Roberts
destroyed
the
factory
spinner.
The power
of
machinery
in Great
Britain,
in mills,
has been
computed
to be
equal to
600,000,000
men, one
man being
able by
the aid of
steam to
do the
work which
