> came almost exclusively from (1) raising a family and (2) religion And the military, and politics, and arts, and friends, and philosophy, and sciences, ...

> came almost exclusively from (1) raising a family and (2) religion And the military, and politics, and arts, and friends, and philosophy, and sciences, ... It's a big fat modern-times bias to imagine that our 19th century ancestors were so simplistic. Just read Zola or Dostoïevski, many characters and/or situations could be transposed nearly intact in modern times.