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"We had always been convinced that Victorianism was a myth, engendered by the long life of the sovereign and of her most illustrious subjects. We were constantly being told that the Victorians did this, or the Victorians thought that, while my own difficulty was to find anything on which they agreed: any assumption which was not at some time or other fiercely challenged. 'Victorian History'.


'The objects of this 'Society', so ran the prospectus of the Rochdale ...

'The objects of this 'Society', so ran the prospectus of the Rochdale Pioneers, 'are the moral and intellectual advancement of its members.

It provides them with groceries, butcher's meat, drapery goods, clothes and clogs.' Gas-lighting of the streets was hardly an improvement so

much as a revolution in public

security;' cheap cotton goods in personal cleanliness, coIn lamps in domestic comfort.

Finance, the manipulation of wealth and credit as things by themselves, three or four degrees removed from the visible crop or ore, was an adjunct.

Production was the thing itself.

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A generation which has come to take invention for granted and is, ...

A generation which has come to take invention for granted and is, perhaps, more sensitive to its mischief than its benefits, cannot easily recover the glory of an age when

However far the Benthamite disciple went, he would find the old sage ...

However far the Benthamite disciple went, he would find the old sage had been there before him / her; every trail was The admiration of Bacon, almost amounting to a red

On the question of Women's Suffrage, the Utilitarians were somewhat inconsistently divided; ...

On the question of Women's Suffrage, the Utilitarians were somewhat inconsistently divided; Bentham, a flirtatious old bachelor, being

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