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Hence ‘history’ has dealt fairly with the Tolpuddle Martyrs, and fulsomely with Francis Place

For despite all the homilies addressed to the Luddites (then and subsequently) as to the beneficial consequences of new machinery or of ‘free’ enterprise

It is of course easy to fall back on an otiose ‘economist’ explanation, which attributes Luddism to the simple cause and effect of the Orders in Council.

There is a sense in which any religion which places great emphasis on the after-life is the Chiliasm of the defeated and the hopeless.

From both it took over the almost-Manichaean sense of guilt at man’s depravity.