“Examine our situation; consider the advantages that God and nature have given to us. We are in the extreme of Western Europe, the most important place between the Old and the New World (...). We have a great extension of coasts, bigger than the one of any other nations, which assure us hegemony and superiority in the sea trade. The production of coal and iron provide us great advantages over our competitors. Our capital exceeds the one they have (...). Our national character, the free institutions that govern us, our freedom of speech, action and press, which spreads all the discoveries and all the scientific advances, together with the natural and physical advantages, give us the first position over the rest of nations, which benefit themselves from the free trade.”
Sir Robert Peel in Parliament, 1846.
- What do you think it would be an appropriate title for the text?
- According to the author, which physical and human factors favoured the industrial revolution?
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