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.

• 牛顿旧时代和皇权衰退时期的18世纪上半叶，英国正处于受惠于手工业的余辉和冒险商人的海外贸易的时期。