The concept of "compensation" is widely used in psychology and is a direct consequence of the principle of energy conservation. This phenomenon can be applied to life.
There are many examples of compensation in history - as a phenomena that supports balance in a particular country. For example, a high standard of living in developed states is compensated by or high taxes, or the reluctance of citizens to work, live on benefits. Near the luxurious mansions are poor huts, against the background of the grand conquest, the power of the property has a decline of the life of a simple population, high technical progress can not defeat the usual virus, which is awesome called Covid.
Such compensator can be seen in history. London slums can be called a bright example of compensation. In my opinion, in Victorian times (1837-1901) they served as if the trigger of a sharp rise in technical, scientific, intellectual progress. As opposed to the wealth, the refinement of the style and taste of the romantic era, just in a pair of hundreds of meters from the prestigious Westminster Abbey, where the residence of the government and the parliament building was located, neighboring the dull swamp in which the community of beggars, thieves and prostitutes lived.
Charles Dickens gave this area the infamous name is the devilish acre. These slums were home for thousands of people who lived in inhuman despair. Rich Westminster and Slums Long years lived side by side, pretending that there is no other.
Despite the idealization of the time of the rule of Queen Victoria, of course, not everything was flawless in the Great Power. Some areas of London could also apply for the title of the poorest. But none of them was so terrifying as the devilish acre. Due to the marsh terrain of the Earth, the slums were prone to settlement and are unsuitable for full-fledged construction.
Young Dickens, then a novice reporter of parliament, was shocked by the fact that such a territory was in the heart of the British Empire. The complete determination to defeat it, he wrote:
No megalpolis, which would represent a more ambiguous physical and moral aspect than Westminster. The most luxurious streets are only a mask for poor areas that lie behind them, while places dedicated to the most sacred goals begin with scenes of indescribable shame and pollution; The coarse wave of moral fuel, current in the capital rolling its dirty waves to the walls of the Westminster Abbey.
It is significant that these slums arose in the Middle Ages, when the monks of the abbey provided shelter to criminals and debtors. In the middle of the XVIII century, this area was built up with cheap houses, in which there were no ventilation and sewage. Huge masses of the population lived in the mud. In the labyrinth of the alleys and yards, diseases, including typhoid and cholera, were reinforced.
Police rarely attended this area. Crime has flourished everywhere. Especially terrified the plight of children, many of them were street orphans.
Finally, charitable activities, initiated by Dickens and its contemporaries, gave fruit. British missionaries rushed to life in a slum. They decided that this area was so corrupted that his inhabitants need to re-turn into Christianity. Thanks to the financial support of Millionaire-Philanthropes, shelter was created for former prostitutes and a school for local children was built.
It is worth noting that the rumpet history ended positively for its inhabitants, for London and, as a result, for all England. After the pollution of the River Thames reached the peak during the Great Vony in 1858, members of parliament allowed the sewer system in London. It was then that the country was built by sewer facilities. In the chain, for England, other countries began to introduce sewage.
As they say, there is no humus without good. In the country after events, wastewater ceased to fall into public drinking water, cases of cholera practically stopped. Old shacks in the devilish acres disappeared. At the site of poor huts, modern houses and buildings were built.
In life, everything is like this: a bad thing comes to replace good. The main thing is to see that everything that happens is useful for development.
Author - Nara Wilson
Source - Springzhizni.ru.