tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post5683739072878791148..comments2024-03-27T17:31:58.315-07:00Comments on Home Living: American Artists of the Victorian PeriodLydiahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-33665225666667037062010-10-24T15:55:48.314-07:002010-10-24T15:55:48.314-07:00You have to have some hatred of the past history o...You have to have some hatred of the past history or be able to despise the Victorians before you can really swallow communism, socialism or feminism. You have to think that life was terrible back in those days and that these new political plans will prevent us from going back and suffering those days agaon. Re-invented history of the Victorians is descreibed, tongue-in-cheek, here:<br /><br />Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-40322925317536563562010-10-24T15:03:56.580-07:002010-10-24T15:03:56.580-07:00What I call "The Progressive Fallacy" is...What I call "The Progressive Fallacy" is that we are moving forward through equality and technology, and that the fundamental conditions of human life have changed as a result. <br /><br />This way of thinking requires that we demonize the past in as many ways possible. That is in part to hide the idea that humans have not changed at all, and so we face the same struggle for bravery, Brett Stevenshttp://www.amerika.org/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-6591452990426901082010-10-21T19:44:48.183-07:002010-10-21T19:44:48.183-07:00I agree. I felt a little sea sick myself. The word...I agree. I felt a little sea sick myself. The word "nausea" must have originated with sea voyages: nautical discomfort or something.Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-14485446244108286312010-10-21T19:32:40.818-07:002010-10-21T19:32:40.818-07:00Oh, that top picture almost seems like it is movin...Oh, that top picture almost seems like it is moving!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-20411835578918183752010-10-21T12:11:07.113-07:002010-10-21T12:11:07.113-07:00Thank you for adding the Aspiring Homemaker to you...Thank you for adding the Aspiring Homemaker to your links. I am enjoying this a lot!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-88418838602241470932010-10-21T05:24:19.761-07:002010-10-21T05:24:19.761-07:00My daughters and I have had a conversation a few t...My daughters and I have had a conversation a few times about the reason that century (give or take a few years) was so saturated with inventive minds. One of my daughters concluded that they simply had less free time available for entertainment. They seemed to be always engaged in the business of producing. While there has always been producing and consuming, our generation seems to be more Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-87490607192880696552010-10-20T14:17:35.156-07:002010-10-20T14:17:35.156-07:00Lydia,
Exactly! The foundations laid during the 1...Lydia,<br /><br />Exactly! The foundations laid during the 18th century by men such as John Wesley (died, 1791) and his brother james set the scene for the various groups espousing temperance and moderation for the good of the people. In this era, the likes of William Wilberforce worked, abolishing the commodification of human beings in the form of slavery, Wesley's heirs strove wwithin Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-73184470631724009832010-10-20T11:08:25.976-07:002010-10-20T11:08:25.976-07:00Sarah in Australia,
The Victorians inherited a lo...Sarah in Australia,<br /><br />The Victorians inherited a lot of problems from the previous colonial era and they sought solutions. I do not know why the so called progressives diss the era so badly, when they actually created what is now known as welfare, for orphan children, and government pensions for war widows. They developed improved sanitation in cities and improved housing for the. Lydiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15530969871397361970noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9186456.post-55263551443564837832010-10-20T06:45:49.244-07:002010-10-20T06:45:49.244-07:00Lydia,
This era brought us Braille, Moon (the onl...Lydia,<br /><br />This era brought us Braille, Moon (the only surviving linear raised print for vision impaired readers, developed by Dr. William Moon)), the typewriter, the phonograph, the telephone, the Braille writer (Hall Braille Writer, patented in either 1891 or 1892), comprable machines in europe from the 1880's), an explosion of education for persons with little or no sight, Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com