Yes, the Revolution was about politics and religion and envy and many other things. But the spark was primal: Hunger, from being taxed literally to death.

“You see, but you do not observe,” Sherlock complains to Watson — and us — constantly.

Perhaps if they’d lived a century later they would have had a calmer time, instead of “beating on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”

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