Age of progress?

Age of progress?

>industrial revolution wasn't progress

It wasn't exactly moral or good sometimes, but it was progress.

Beats living in mudhuts

Steampunk is best.

>child labor is progress

What's wrong with child labor?

however dreary and disgusting it may look without the age of progress 99% of the world would remain farmer peasants ruled by a 1% aristocracy (of noble birth or otherwise) and people would be dying of the pox or some other ghastly infectious disease

>children of farmers dont do labor
lolololololololol

The real ages of progress were the Gothic and Enlightenment. The Industrial Revolution was nothing but the process of putting technologies developed by the Scientific Revolution into practice.

Romantics please leave

You can't stop progress

By the definition of progress coined in the 18th century and sanctified in the 19th century, then yes, the Industrial Revolution was an age of progress.