During the first half of the eighteenth century, in the old age of Newton and the decline of the Royal Society, England basked in a last Indian summer of village industry and the overseas trade of merchant adventurers. 在十八世纪上半部分牛顿晚年和皇家学会衰落的时候，英国的乡村手工业和海外商业冒险正沐浴在最后一个印度夏天了。()