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the victory of Cobden, it also aided not only economical but alsosocial progress. The worker of Centralised Industry, as lie wasnow formed, grew out of the political-revolutionary movement,which had been nothing more than a sign of extreme weakness.In consequence of technical development, and by reason ofincreased labour capacity, this worker rose in existing societyto a middle-class position.
The victory of the League was the expression that bourgeoisiesociety, economically the highest in the State, had achieved thisposition politically also. The previous transition stage is notedthereby that the leader of landed-proprietorship, Sir Robert Peel ,was himself the offspring of one of the oldest manufacturingfamilies of Lancashire . On the other hand, it is not to be lostsight of that the manner in which the victory took expression,that of the autonomous duty repeals in place of the use of theCorn Laws to bo given up, to get compensations from othernations, depended solely upon the commercial-political constella-tion of that time. It was hoped that the other nations of Europe would of themselves follow with lowering of tariffs. Thenappeared at that time those enormous markets of the East for thecotton industry, India and China, which were ruled politically oreommercial-politically, and with which that point of view ofcompensation did not come into question.