For there is no one in the world so ready as your modern Englishman to deny that he is a man in order to prove that he is a business-man.
Fortunately we can establish for this strange being, who has thus indecently stripped himself of humanity, and establish in very clear and indisputable fashion the cash nexus between Unionism and decay.

The argument is simple.
The Union came precisely in the period in which capital was beginning to dominate the organisation of industry.

The Union denuded Ireland of the capital which would have enabled her to transform the technique of her manufactures, and so maintain the ground won under Grattan's Parliament.
The channels through which this export of capital proceeded were absenteeism and over-taxation.
The first statement in this paragraph of plaint calls for no elaboration.

Arnold Toynbee took as the terminal dates of the Industrial Revolution the years 1760 and 1830.

The last generation of the eighteenth century brought to birth the great inventions, but it was the first generation of the nineteenth that founded on them large scale production, and settled the structure of modern industry.