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

Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

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

Bourgeois Nerd's avatar

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.

diogenez's avatar

Children's tiny fingers sew the finest shoes!

diogenez's avatar

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

Fartknocker's avatar

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.

PsycWench's avatar

Perhaps Perry prayed to Satan by mistake.

chascates's avatar

Steampunk Jesus knows when you masturbate.

schmannity's avatar

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

PubOption's avatar

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'

PsycWench's avatar

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

PsycWench's avatar

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.