Quotation of the Day…

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… is from page 59 of the late Gordon Wood’s marvelous 1991 book, The Radicalism of the American Revolution:

In such a small-scale society [as colonial North America], privacy as we know it did not exist, and our sharp modern distinction between private and public was as yet scarcely visible. Living quarters were crowded, and people who were not formally related – servants, hired laborers, nurses, and other lodgers – were often jammed together with family members in the same room or even in the same bed.

DBx: And by the world standards of the day, residents of Britain’s North American colonies were among the richest people then alive. Ponder this reality when you next hear some Democratic Socialist or collectivist pundit or professor announce, from the comfort of their cubby or study – having slept the previous night with no unwelcome strangers – that “capitalism has failed.”