Tag: industrial revolution
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18– Industrial Revolution
by ProfDave, ©2022 (May 20, 2022) — Industrialization is an obvious part of our world, and “the Industrial Revolution” is a term that appears in most textbooks, invented by Arnold Toynbee in 1884. What was it? The concept (as elaborated by T.S. Ashton early in the last century) described a gradual series of changes in…
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The 13 Colonies Started Freedom. Now They’re Destroying It!
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, President, NARLO, ©2020 (Jan. 5, 2020) — Long before the “Shot Heard Round the World” at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775, the new world rose from about 2,000 inhabitants in 1620 to 250,000 by 1770 and 2.4 million by 1775. Most came from the…
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Are the Oldest and Wisest Obsolete?
“DON’T KNOCK EXPERIENCE” by David Wojick, ©2019, CFACT (May 13, 2019) — “When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.”–Mark Twain. I…
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Big Cities Spawn Corrupt Socialists Like Hillary Clinton
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2016, President, NARLO (Nov. 6, 2016) — At the start of this great country, around 1776, there might have been 3 million inhabitants of the Continental United States, mostly concentrated along the East Coast in the original thirteen colonies, not including the native population. Now at 320,000,000,…
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American Hydra: The Many Heads of Corporatism
“ABSOLUTE TOTAL CONTROL” by Steven Neill, ©2016 (Jun. 27, 2016) — “There are two things that are important in politics. The first is money and I can’t remember what the second one is.” — Mark Hanna, William McKinley’s 1896 presidential campaign manager and later senator from Ohio, in 1895 (1) The Gilded Age in America…
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Why Congress Will Never Repeal The IRS
FROM “IN DEFENSE OF RURAL AMERICA” by Ron Ewart, ©2014 (Jan. 12, 2014) — “In June, 1988 Kay Council of High Point, NC came home one night to find a note from her husband, Alex: ‘My dearest Kay – I have taken my life in order to provide capital for you. The IRS and its liens,…
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Can America Survive Its Large Cities?
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION’S “FUNDAMENTAL CHANGE” OF AMERICA by Ron Ewart, ©2010 (Jan. 15, 2011) — “When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.” Thomas Jefferson Many of Thomas Jefferson’s quotes were prophetic in nature, not because he could foretell the future, but because…