On Wed, 23 Aug 2017 17:48:02 +0200
Alessandro Selli <alessandroselli@???> wrote:

> >>   People were happy even before the steam engine was invented.    

> > 'solitary,

> Do you think so?

> > poor,

> It depends; when the wealthiest individuals where those who could afford a
> horse, wealth was more evently distributed than today. Or do you think they
> felt poor because they could not have a PC?

> > nasty,

> Maybe, some of them.

> > brutish,

> Maybe, some of them.

> > and short' come to mind

> Oh dear, were they really *short*? Jeez, how happy I am not to have lived
> in those awful times!

All those adjectives, which come from a quote of Thomas Hobbes (1588 – 1679) refer not to people, but to their lives in preceding ages...

Cheers,

Ron.
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