Condition-of-England question
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title:
Condition-of-England question
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The Condition-of-England question was a debate in the Victorian era over the issue of the English working class during the Industrial Revolution. It was first proposed by Thomas Carlyle in his essay Chartism (1839). After assessing Chartism as "the bitter discontent grown fierce and mad, the wrong condition therefore or the wrong disposition, of the Working Classes of England", Carlyle proceeds to ask: What means this bitter discontent of the Working Classes? Whence comes it, whither goes it? Ab
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Phrase coined by Thomas Carlyle describing an 1839 English political debate
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Condition-of-England_question
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2007-03-01T20:19:42Z
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2024-09-11T16:25:54Z
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