Opportunities for leisure activities increased dramatically as real wages continued to grow and hours of work continued to decline.
=more reading time
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- Sep 2018
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en.wikipedia.org en.wikipedia.org
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literature
easier for the lower classes to afford a book as opposed to paying to go to the opera or something else, hence some of the overall holistic appeal?
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Secularism and doubts about the accuracy of the Old Testament grew as the scientific outlooked rapidly gained ground among the better educated.
people were having THOUGHTS?!
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imposed fresh moralistic values
how can one impose someone moral's? i'm not talking about forcing or influencing people to do something, what I'm saying is you can't really force someone to truly feel that way on a moral level about something
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Moral standards improved very dramatically, e
while it is understood that religion can be overall positive for a community is it not a little biased for the author here to blanket state that everyones moral standards improved because they were forced to practice a certain religion?
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- Aug 2018
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v21collective.org v21collective.org
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historically pervasive resistance to “theory” i
to document history one should have facts not theories, is this supposed to be in reference to the history of the victorian era or to specific works of the time?
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embrace new reflection and abstractio
meaning what exactly?
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At its worst
again--not sure how to read this with the author so clearly telling us how to feel? very distracting
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fetishization of the archival
the tone here and in the previous sentence surely has to be opinionated, at least slightly. the entire feel is twinged with emotional distaste. feels like opinion not exactly factual. vehement almost.
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