The paragraphs have been placed in a random order. Restore the original order. Jumbled paragraphs Correct paragraph order (1-4) a At the turn of the 19th century, however, only a relatively small sector of the British economy had been directly affected by the Industrial Revolution. b For each of the three major countries of western Europe - Britain, France, and Germany - the closing decades of the 18th century were years of increasing economic prosperity, and the pace of economic development in Britain far outdid that of the others. C It would be a mistake to call the other two countries underdeveloped - in terms of cultural achievement, especially literature, art, and philosophy, they outstripped Britain - but they lagged behind in terms of economic development. d Even two decades later, the picture was little different, except that cotton had become the country's leading manufacturing industry. It was not until the middle of the century that it could be properly described as an industrial society.
