A society that has made 'nostalgia' a marketable commodity on the cultural exchange quickly repudiates the suggestion that life in the past was in any important way better than life today.
Bio: John Trench was an eighteenth-century English Anglican priest in Ireland:he was educated at Magdalen Hall, Oxford and was Dean of Raphoe from 21 January 1692 until his death on 24 June 1725.
