What is the main idea of this passage? Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
All the public inscriptions in the town were painted
alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail
might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have
been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or
both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the
contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact,
fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town;
fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
O Industrialization results in pollution.
Industrialization results in standardization and
monotony
O Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
O People in Coketown typically volunteered to work
long hours.

Industrialization results in standardization and monotony

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from the passage from Charles Dickens Hard Times, the inscription of the town are all painted alike and one place can be easily taken for the other because of the monotony of the color and standardisation.

Therefore, the main idea of the passage is that Industrialization results in standardization and monotony

a historian researching the immigration policies of the early 1900s would expect a source written today,rather than in 1910 to :

( a ) be more interested in objective data and statistics.

atman means 'eternal self'. the atman refers to the real self beyond ego or false self. it is often referred to as 'spirit' or 'soul' and indicates our true self or essence which underlies our existence.

there are many interesting perspectives on the self in hinduism ranging from the self as eternal servant of god to the self as being identified with god. the understanding of the self as eternal supports the idea of reincarnation in that the same eternal being can inhabit temporary bodies.

the idea of atman entails the idea of the self as a spiritual rather than material being and thus there is a strong dimension of hinduism which emphasises detachment from the material world and promotes practices such as asceticism. thus it could be said that in this world, a spiritual being, the atman, has a human experience rather than a human being having a spiritual experience.

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