THE CHIEF FEATURES OF THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION

Right from the title the intelligent reader can understand this is an argumentative text which describes the causes and effect of the industrial revolution. This text is divided into paragraph.

The first paragraph is the introduction. It covers the first three lines. It's a declaration of intention of the industrial revolution.

The second paragraph goes from line 4 to line 21. It is organised into different argumentation: a definition, a judgment and an explanation.

The third paragraph goes from line 22 to line 31. In this paragraph the writer describes how  some writers of the time wanted to due the situation. For example: John Stuart wrote a book in which he tried to solve the problem of how wealth ought to be distibuited. Mill showed what was and what was not inevitable under a system of free competition.

The fourth paragraph goes from line 32 to line 39. In this paragraph the reader can find some examples of how the agricultural people has increased and decreased.

The fifth paragraph goes from line 40 to line 57. Here the reader can find the causes of the noticeable degrease: destruction of the common-field system of cultivation, enclosure of common and waste lands, consolidation of small farms into large.

The sixth paragraph goes from line 58 to line 72. It explains the changes bore up upon the rural population: improvements from an agricultural point of view. Substitution of scientific for unscientific culture: agricultural advance.

The seventh paragraph goes from line 73 to line 96. It talks about manufactures: substitution of the factory for the domestic system. Great invenctions were the cotton manufacture, the spinning-jenny ( Hargreaves), the water-frame ( Arkwright), the mule ( Crompton), the system engine (Watt); but the must important was the power loom.