Lucy Hamilton
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- Oct 30, 2015
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Why do you wish to take us back to the 19th century? Life was much harder, people had lower quality of life and America was no where near the power we're currently...Without government regs, laws and investment this is exactly where we're going.
There are worse periods, much worse, such as the Middle Ages and who except the insane would want to have been around during the Witchcraft freak-out's, where literally if you had an argument with someone and a week later they became sick, that was enough to get you denounced as a Witch and that was then a one way ticket.
The 18th Century and 19th Century were both exceptional periods, especially in the arts. Of course there were some downsides such as having no age limit on executions and also having bizarre definitions of what was a capitol offence eg. I have read of more than one case where children as young as 8 years-old were hanged for stealing bread.