-Caveat Lector-
What with all the talk and sentiment about the lofty and wonderous
"founding fathers" and such on this list, one tends to forget that
many (the majority?) who first came to the colonies were fugitives,
criminals, and people otherwise desperate enough to cross an ocean
(no guarantee of safe arrival in those days) and think to make a life
in a land with absolutely no amenities awaiting them...people
willing to venture into the unknown and face any hardship rather than
to stay where they were.
In such terms, the turn of the last century was fairly recent
history, and you have only to look at old photographs of Paris to see
how incredibly things have changed in the 20th century. You have only
to read a novel like "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kozniski (sp?) to
realize that many parts of Europe, outside the big cities, were
incredibly primitive and "uncivilized" at the time of WWII.
I think things have moved so fast in the past two or three decades
that it is really difficult for us to think or imagine in historical
terms anymore.
sno0wl
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