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London’s Natural History Museum is one of the city’s finest examples of Victorian architecture, its neo-Gothic facade and interior elaborately decorated with colored stone inlays of flora and fauna. Conceived and commissioned by Sir Richard Owen — the man whose Dinosauria, published in 1842, introduced the world to a genus of bird-hipped reptiles that walked upon the earth before the Ark — the museum is a temple to the Age of Enlightenment. Through its halls walked the greatest minds of their day, men of stature, revered and honored for their knowledge alone.
Work is the grand cure of all the maladies and miseries that ever beset mankind.
(Thomas Carlyle, 1795–1881)
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Notes
Quoted by Crispin Tickell in Mary Anning of Lyme Regis, Lyme Regis: Philpot Museum, 1996, p. 3.
T.H.S. Escott, England: Her People, Polity and Pursuits, London: Richardson, 2009 (1885)
Anthony Bimba, The History of the American Working Class, London: Martin Lawrence, 1927, p. 23.
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Donkin, R. (2010). The Last Puritan in a Nation of Amateurs. In: The History of Work. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230282179_8
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