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Today's GOP regards Dickens as a how-to manual, so you're right to worry.

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Of course. That's just sense: Darkies are inferior. Self-evident!

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These are the kind of people who read Dickens and sympathize with the guy who goes "Mooooooooooooooooooore?!?"

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"Render unto Caesar the things that ...." Oops. Never mind.

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Children's tiny fingers sew the finest shoes!

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Good Christians have more children to fill the pews and the factories.

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Was it me or does this little textbook skip the French Revolution and the deployment of the guillotine onto the Royal class? Second, I can't wait for next week where I will learn how unions were created by Satan.

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Who, me or Engels?

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Perhaps Perry prayed to Satan by mistake.

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Steampunk Jesus knows when you masturbate.

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It's still OK to believe in Social Darwinism, right?

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What a difference a year makes. Mrs Cooke Taylor found better conditions in the factories than she expected, in 1844 a guy from Manchester, name of Engels, wrote 'The Condition of the Working Class in England', and claimed that their condition was terrible. I suspect that Beka's author(s) had to work a lot harder to find Mrs. Cooke Taylor's comments than they would to find Engels'

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A revival of Biblical (is there another kind?) Christianity dispelled superstition. There's some serious irony right there.

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Do you think the people who write this crap really believe it? It seems inconsistent with enough logical ability and intelligence to craft a Word document.

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