No the black Death was only one of the factors that contributed to the renaissance.
Social Darwinism grew from the writings of D. Charles Darwin.
British law made it a punishable crime to possess salt not bought from the English factories.
While the Indians were ruled by the British, they were not allowed to posses salt any other than the one produced and procured by the English. The indians were forbidden by law to not own such or process their own salt. People who did this illegally were caught and beaten down for breaking this law.
As the metaphor for the United States, Dickens was trying to use the garden to represent the United States in his words.
A metaphor can be described as a word that is used symbolically to represent another word.
The sentence shows that Mr. Charles Dickens may have been talking about the gardens in the sentence but the uncomfortable air that he was talking about may have been about the United States of America.
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