when Victoria was crowned, Great Britain had 17 million inhabitants, after 20 years it had 21 million, immigration from Ireland, agricoltural economy depend on the weather that is cold, famines because corn is influenced by bad weather, desertification of the land, England was not ready in its facilities to welcome immigrants, it not have houses, work, sanitation enough, criminality and crisis.

due to the industrial revolution we have the growing of mushroom industrial towns in central england, not development of facilities, structure and houses that would welcome immigrants from the towns or the country, terrible diseases like Black Depth, poor sanitation, a sort of social life, people sit down on chair, 'the best of times, the worst of times', gap between very rich people and very poor people.

host poor people without a job, not a great life, just survive, facade, bridle, corporal punishment, peeople could be whipped

used and abused, textile industries, children exploited in mines, women were subjected to sex and violence in factories and in the houses of the high middle classes and aristocracy, sex crime, if you were riped is your fault.

English government at the beginning didn't realize what was the real problem, tried to manage the unemployment wth punishment (you must manage the cause, not the symphtoms), crime rate did not decrease as far as they issued the legislation, business man and industrialists, we have the control of the source, successful strategy.

middle phase of the Victorian Age scientific discovery (biology and geology), universe stable and trasparent to the intellect, 'On the origin of Species', natural selection and evolution, no Providence, God far away, 'Survival of a species', 'only the fittest survive', human being are an evolution of apes (observation), social pessimism (decrease of self-confidence), something wild inside us, Freud (awareness, consciousness, instict).