"Oh, so people come to Earth in your time to learn? People from... many worlds? I would like to see it."
That's... sort of nice to hear, actually. It puts him in mind of some of the bigger English universities, full of students from across the Empire, except... even grander, he has to suppose.
"I know... one of those things," Watson says wryly. Eugenics is still a very newly coined term and Ireland hasn't had the war of independence that will require it to eventually unify. "Fortunately the Black Death was well before my time, but outbreaks of plague still do occur occasionally. Not nearly as serious as it was, of course." He sighs. "I don't know how to mark my own time. We have wars, we have poverty, we have epidemics. Women have little power in my society, and rich men have too much, and the British empire is a sprawling things of many wonders and many peoples who chafe under the yoke of British rule. It certainly could be better. But we've made such improvement even in my own lifetime, too."
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That's... sort of nice to hear, actually. It puts him in mind of some of the bigger English universities, full of students from across the Empire, except... even grander, he has to suppose.
"I know... one of those things," Watson says wryly. Eugenics is still a very newly coined term and Ireland hasn't had the war of independence that will require it to eventually unify. "Fortunately the Black Death was well before my time, but outbreaks of plague still do occur occasionally. Not nearly as serious as it was, of course." He sighs. "I don't know how to mark my own time. We have wars, we have poverty, we have epidemics. Women have little power in my society, and rich men have too much, and the British empire is a sprawling things of many wonders and many peoples who chafe under the yoke of British rule. It certainly could be better. But we've made such improvement even in my own lifetime, too."