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What is one positive aspect Carlyle acknowledges?

What does Carlyle mean by “fire-horse”?

Thomas Carlyle - Sings of the Times

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What does Carlyle mean by “fire-horse”?
A train
A symbol of war
A mythological creature
A racing horse
2
What is one positive aspect Carlyle acknowledges?
Less crime
Better food, clothing, and housing
Cheaper goods
More leisure time
3
What does Carlyle predict will become an important question?
How to stop machines
The distance between the rich and the poor
When to end the Industrial Revolution
The proper use of political power
4
What name does Carlyle give to the age he is describing?
The Mechanical Age
The Religious Age
The Agricultural Age
The Heroical Age
5
What does Carlyle say has been discredited and thrown aside?
Religion
Old modes of exertion
Moral values
Literature
6
What concern does Carlyle express about wealth?
It is not being reported accurately
It is becoming concentrated and separated into masses
It is being taxed more
It is declining
7
What has replaced the living artisan in the workshop?
Inanimate machinery
Managers
Apprentices
Foreign labor
8
What symbol does Carlyle use to describe steamships?
Metal serpents
Unwearied servants on vaporous wings
Fire-horses
Mechanical whales
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7. According to Carlyle, what do machines now help us with?
rafting laws and constitutions
Planting forests
Mincing cabbages and casting into magnetic sleep
Writing novels
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What does Carlyle suggest even chickens are affected by?
Political unrest
Poor farming techniques
Climate change
Mechanical advancement ✅