Pre 1914 Utopia?

by Flat_Accent 12 Replies latest watchtower bible

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  Band on the Run

  IN the 1960s many older people believed that the youth revolt was unique and signalled the end of Western civilization. The Beatles were viewed as satanic. Someone found hyroglypics (Sp) from early Egyptian civilization. The words condemned the youth culture of ancient Egypt with even stronger language.

  Repeated droughts, plagues, infant mortality, child mortality, pain from toothaches was every place.

  The average white Englishman worked in factories under worse conditions than the slaves in America.
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  BluesBrother

  Watchtower's vision of the World before 1914 could be considered a utopia. But is that true?

  "The Victorians were very worried about crime. Levels rose sharply towards the end of the 18th century and continued to rise through much of the 19th century. Offence s went up from about 5,000 per year in 1800 to about 20,000 per year in 1840. "

  source http://vcp.e2bn.org/justice/section2194-sentences-and-punishments.html

  [Many modern people mistakenly imagine the Victorian period to have been a time of tranquility and peace, far different from our own supposedly more violent age. In fact, parts of London were so dangerous no policeman would enter them, and thieves would murder people for their handkerchiefs. According to the guide to London published by Charles Dickens's son in 1888, even the Victorian household, that secure haven, was beset by vicious thieves, hustlers, and con artists. The section entitled "Householders, Hints to" warns:..........

  source http://www.victorianweb.org/history/crime/1.html

  Then couple that with poverty, disease and unscrupulous traders unfettered by trading laws who polluted foodstuffs for dishonest gain, and you have a pretty rotten time to be alive
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  wha happened?

  u wonder how mankind actually survives itself