, Mark Twain colourfully depicts the absurd situation as it was at the time. One of my favourite lines that captured the sentiment of the period was this one:
"It warn’t the grounding—that didn’t keep us back but a little. We also blew out a cylinder head.”I highly recommend the book to all. You learn some history, get to think about how a society can live in such contradiction of its own principles (and ours is likely no different; we will likely be judged by those who come after us!), and enjoy a few laughs in the process.
“Good gracious! anybody hurt?”
“No’m. Killed a nigger.”
“Well, it’s lucky; because sometimes people do get hurt."
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Thanks for the recommendation, Saj. Will reread both Tom Sawyer and this one.
Never apply today's morals to history, if you do that all generations will be guilty. We may feel very righteous today, but in 1000 years, people (and robots) will rightly see us as the savage that we're today.
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