What is the main idea of this passage? Read the passage from Charles Dickens's Hard Times.
All the public inscriptions in the town were painted
alike, in severe characters of black and white. The jail
might have been the infirmary, the infirmary might have
been the jail, the town-hall might have been either, or
both, or anything else, for anything that appeared to the
contrary in the graces of their construction. Fact, fact,
fact, everywhere in the material aspect of the town;
fact, fact, fact, everywhere in the immaterial.
O Industrialization results in pollution.
Industrialization results in standardization and
monotony
O Laborers in the Coketown factory had to work hard.
O People in Coketown typically volunteered to work
long hours.

Industrialization results in standardization and monotony

Explanation:

According to the excerpt from the passage from Charles Dickens Hard Times, the inscription of the town are all painted alike and one place can be easily taken for the other because of the monotony of the color and standardisation.

Therefore, the main idea of the passage is that Industrialization results in standardization and monotony

explanation: we can only guess at how our actions may be perceived in the future. doing something really big like killing lots of people, saving lots of people, affecting the lives of lots of people is a sure fire way of being remembered in historical records. we can also make a difference in the history records by being a small influence on something bigger, whether that is as a civil servant, scientist or artist.

of course you could argue that we all affect history just as tiny cogs in a   bigger machine.

if you mean how do people influence our opinions of things which have already happened, then simply by writing a book which looks at things form a different perspective and trying to convince people that this perspective is more accurate or truthful. people do it all the time i.e. richard the third was a terrible or was he? plenty would disagree, it's just that their views aren't the most widely known.n:

d is the answer. leo should include the source.