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| Gustav Klimt, Portrait of Fritza Riedler, 1906 |
Robert Richardson, in his Emerson biography, writes in chapter 75 how Emerson found England bigger, faster, more modern, urban, more bustling.
Railroads connected everything. It was symbolic of the new forces that on December 1, 1847, while Emerson was in Liverpool, the time all over England was reduced and standardized to Greenwich Mean Time. Until that day, time for each village or town had been regulated by local solar observation, noon being the moment when the sun reached its highest point overhead.
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