这是在工业革命之前，所以没有诸如此类的纺纱，就不会有织物。

This was before the industrial revolution and so without all that spinning, there would have been no fabric.

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Just like, you might say, the old regime in France, the old aristocratic society existing before the revolution, tended to produce a very different kind of soul, a very different kind of individual.

就像法国旧时的政体，存在革命之前的,旧时贵族社会，倾向于催化一种非常不同的灵魂，一种非常不同的个体。

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