FACTORY

Establishments supplied with machinery or the purpose of carrying on any branch of manufacture, ire usually called factories. Hence we have woollen, cot on, flax, r Sunday schools, or both, attached to them, which the children attend. But, independently of this, the training they undergo in factories is of inestimable value, and is not more conducive to their own interests than to those of the public. Besides supposing that the health of the population is injured by the extension of manufactures, it has been supposed that the extreme subdivision of labour in manufacturing establishments, and the undivided attention which every one employed in them must give to the single opera- [s. 452]