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The early 1800s didn't have governments?
by apocalypstyx 4y ago
The early 1800s didn't have governments?
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- JKCalhoun 4y agoWhen discussing government as opposed to say art or literature, "Romantic era" is a strange choice.
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- mr_toad 4y agoA cynic might argue that Humanism and the Enlightenment had no lasting impact on the “stupid cruelty” of the governed or their governments.
- tgv 4y agoWas the English system of government similar to the French? The German? The Greek? The Chinese? And who governed the Romantic era? Countries have governments, badly defined time periods don't.
- cess11 4y agoThe sentence you quoted from mentions the British Empire twice already, do you really need a third mention at the end to understand what the context is for the quoted part?
- tgv 4y agoWe know exactly when Shelley lived. There’s no need to mention that either. It’s a form of bad journalistic fluffing, that in —-a straightforward interpretation— is misleading.
- cess11 4y agoCan't be easy getting angry about journalism at bits of sentences taken out of context in non-journalistic texts.