Summary Of Southey's Coloquies

In the essay titled, “Southey’s Colloquies” Thomas B. Macaulay, a liberal Member of Parliament and historian criticizes Robert Southey and his opinion that the effects of manufactures and agriculture are comparable. Macaulay believes that Southey has an unrealistic expectation of what it would be to try and compare a cottage and factory and that peasant lives and living conditions weren’t really those that could be described as perfect and luxurious. He seems to be saying that Southey is wrong in his opinion that English peasants may have lived in luxury in the cottages before moving into a more industrialized world where factories were the new cottage, and that to say peasants lived in good conditions before is a false statement. Macaulay
The statistics shows that people living in the Manchester industrial district reached death in categories of gentry/professional, farmer/trader, and laborer/artesian all earlier than in any other district including the one other industrial district called Leeds. These statistics communicate how even though Manchester is experiencing growth and industrialization, mortality rates are most likely higher and people are dying earlier at younger ages during the earlier parts of the
The population over the century grew exponentially increasing the demand for products such as food to be produced, which also increased the need for human labor. Many people were migrating to Manchester which meant there was overcrowding, high demands for certain products, and unsanitary conditions resulting in the break outs of diseases. These were new conditions that a lot of people had not seen before and with the start of the industrial revolution came with a lot of getting used to. As the century and revolution progressed conditions for both people and the city itself eventually improved making it apparent that there was a negative to positive progression for Manchester’s growth. The innovation and eventual stabilization of a country is clearly what happened to Manchester due to the Industrial