Gray went on to describe the factory as the place where Mechanical Monks manufactured all kinds of mechanical products, inside which countless immense machines thundered, emitting a roar like that of a Great Dragon, their strength so formidable that each operation was more efficient than the combined effort of hundreds of blacksmiths.
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In any case, Gray's words had indeed astonished the onlookers, for they had never seen a church that did not venerate deities, let alone such a thing as a mechanical factory—in fact, the people of this era did not even understand the concept of machinery.
However, Gray himself was an excellent blacksmith, so his claims about machinery being more formidable than blacksmiths should have some basis, should they not?
Yet, with this mechanical factory in existence, would not the blacksmiths become unemployed?
