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12-25-18 05:52 PM |
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Originally Posted by Eugene_Flucky
(Post 2583126)
You painted this...!?!??!
...*feeble salute*.... backs away reverently...
PS - I agree, on this time period. Minus the technological knickknacks that we enjoy today (most of which are slowly killing us), I've always felt that this period of time was probably the pinnacle of human civilization. Granted of course the concessions that a) I would dread living there, and b) probably just a few percentage of humanity at that time was able to enjoy it.
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Yes, buddy... I've been a professional painter for 38 years now and a lot of my work has ended up on greetings cards... especially Christmas ones. But it is a romanticised view, for sure.
I heard a radio programme the other day about the Victorian "Poor Laws" which suggested that the poor were indeed provided for by a welfare system of sorts, and perhaps had a less hard time of it than writers like Dickens would have us believe. The "Workhouse" offered an income for those deemed able to work and who didn't qualify for aid, but they were separated from their loved ones as a condition of working there in order to persuade them to look for work elsewhere
Thanks for your kind words, Eugene |
