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24 Jul 2022 6:09 pm
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FOS » 24 Jul 2022, 5:17 pm » wrote: ↑ It wasn't really about a lifestyle difference. Before the gun was fully developed, a military aristocracy was possible. One skilled fencer
could defeat a hundred unskilled people. After guns...not so much
Dickens thinks that people were more comfortable a thousand years ago, before automobiles, refrigerators, washing machines , indoor plumbing and air conditioning,  Dickens said if people fought civil wars back then, when life was so much more pampered, they certainly will now.  Makes sense, I guess
 
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