![]() Jefferson was to write: "Bacon, Locke and Newton. His views on liberty and politics influenced Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson and others in the colonies. Locke died in 1704, but his influence lived on through the century. Over one million, a larger population than Paris. note9 London's population in this period rose from around 700,000 to At around 5.25 million in 1720, England's population would be around Harvest failures and by diseases such as influenza, smallpox, dysentery and Until the 1720s, England's population growth had been held in check by periodic They were getting more in return for their labor. People's lives were improving materially. Its agriculture benefited development in general. But agricultural output was "at least twice that of any other European country, and was to continue so until the 1850s." note8 World trade was rising but just a small fraction what it would be a century later, and Britain was benefitting from exporting more grain than ![]() Britain was still predominantly rural like the continent. The industrial revolution was still a way off.
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