Comments on: English Exceptionalism — Yes, but … http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3551.html Some Chicago Boyz know each other from student days at the University of Chicago. Others are Chicago boys in spirit. The blog name is also intended as a good-humored gesture of admiration for distinguished Chicago boys including those pictured above. Thu, 24 May 2012 09:36:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Lex http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3551.html/comment-page-1#comment-16310 Lex Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:53:28 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003551.php#comment-16310 Tyouth, I do not disagree. It is one thing to say England was unique. It was. It is another to deny that much of its history was shared with its near neighbors. This fact contributed to the relatively rapid economic development of the rest of Europe, for example, by adopting the Industrial Revolution which originated in England. The farther afield you go, other places, with the noteworthy exception of Japan, have found this process much more difficult. Tyouth, I do not disagree. It is one thing to say England was unique. It was. It is another to deny that much of its history was shared with its near neighbors. This fact contributed to the relatively rapid economic development of the rest of Europe, for example, by adopting the Industrial Revolution which originated in England. The farther afield you go, other places, with the noteworthy exception of Japan, have found this process much more difficult.

]]> By: Tyouth http://chicagoboyz.net/archives/3551.html/comment-page-1#comment-16309 Tyouth Mon, 03 Oct 2005 17:40:37 +0000 http://www390.pair.com/chicagob/blog/003551.php#comment-16309 "And was Jerusalem builded here among these dark satanic hills?" William Blake Like Blake, I imagine, England was not special because it was "part of the West, Europe, and Christiandom" but rather because of the ways in which it was different. An evolutionary step away from them, perhaps, and different much like a son is different from the father. So perhaps "alien growth" is a bit strong but still.... “And was Jerusalem builded here
among these dark satanic hills?”
William Blake

Like Blake, I imagine, England was not special because it was “part of the West, Europe, and Christiandom” but rather because of the ways in which it was different. An evolutionary step away from them, perhaps, and different much like a son is different from the father. So perhaps “alien growth” is a bit strong but still….

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