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emma_in_dream) wrote2017-12-13 04:19 pm
emma_in_dream) wrote2017-12-13 04:19 pm
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Train of Progress
I am deeply amused by the tragic yet ridiculous death of William Huskisson.
Adamantly opposed to the 1832 Great Reform Act (that reformed voting and extended it broadly), he was run down by a train.
After resisting reform, he was both literally and figuratively flung in front of the fast moving and
inevitable engine of change, which symbolised not only the advent of middle-class emancipation, but also the revolution of industrialisation, signalled by the new railway system.
Adamantly opposed to the 1832 Great Reform Act (that reformed voting and extended it broadly), he was run down by a train.
After resisting reform, he was both literally and figuratively flung in front of the fast moving and
inevitable engine of change, which symbolised not only the advent of middle-class emancipation, but also the revolution of industrialisation, signalled by the new railway system.