Examples of artificer

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Since work was not put out to rural artificers, clothmaking remained craft-based.
The dominant (if, as discussed in the introduction, not quite correct) image of sovereign artificers is as not only free agents but freebooters.
Better-heeled artificers must almost certainly have been master craftsmen employing labour themselves.
However sovereign they may be, truly enlightened artificers would immediately see that they are far from autarkic.
Enlightenment artificers are sovereign, but they are neither omnipotent nor omniscient.
He identified four" sorts" of people- gentlemen, citizens or burgesses, yeomen, and artificers or labourers.
Even if they do not assess their reference groups before joining, presumably good sovereign artificers should at least assess their groups' pronouncements before internalizing them.
According to our present knowledge, this machine was the nearest the artificers of antiquity came to inventing a truly mechanical clock.
A major development in rural industry often took the form of town based capitalists organising the labours of village artificers.
Finally, however, enlightenment also serves as a constraint on the kinds of communities that sovereign artificers could sanction.
Thus, while participating happily in all sorts of 'communities of enlightenment', sovereign artificers should, by the same token, strictly limit themselves to 'communities of enlightenment'.
The upshot is that, while participating happily in all sorts of 'communities of enlightenment', sovereign artificers can and should limit themselves to communities of that sort.
What they could not accept, in the name of enlightenment, are community involvements of a sort that gratuitously constrain the sovereign will or that gratuitously constrain the artificer's actions.
His method leaves him, on occasion, fulfilling the function of the arrogant artificer, rather than that of the humble historian.
Far from being the province of any one sovereign artificer alone, they are created by and under the continuing control of the community at large.
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