Did Ursula or Mother Shipton make a prophecy about the end of the world ?

 

	The world to an end shall come. In eighteen hundred and eighty one.

 

What was the world like in the years leading up to 1881 ?

 

What was the world like in 1882 ?

 

A look at the world to 1881...

 

Factories had changed the concept of how humanity did things and the factory was a bi-product of the Industrial Revolution which started with the invention of the cotton engine, first in England and then innovated as the cotton gin by Eli Whitney in the USA.

 

In England and elsewhere metal ships were afloat and transporting business people, exiles, and others to all points. The political super powers were shifting from the UK to the USA.

 

Another Shipton prophecy about future technology seemed to be in the midst of revelation. However it was only or partially complete.

 

Partial completion is scary when one considers the possibility that the rest of the technology prediction did come to pass. 

 

So the question about the end of the world Shipton prophecy mentioned on this page should not discount the possibility that 1881 was the beggining of the end of the world and that the prophetic poems of the old Yorkshire seer ( I use seer here instead of seeress simple because actresses like to be called actors !!!). 

 

Everyone knows however that the end of the world began when the world began.

 

The industrial revolution by some standards starts in 1865 and lasts to 1900. Up to 1865 scientists, engineers, inventors, and people in general were innovating at a faster pace than ever before in the history of humanity.

 

Starting in 1800 the world meets up with the loom, the battery, gas lighting, steam powered locomotives, electric lights, tin cans for improved food storage, improved medical technology, balloons, photo equipment, revolvers, machine guns, dynamite, type writters, sewing machines, morse code, the telephone, phonographs, the bicycle, the man glider, internal combustion engine, and so much more.

 

In the year 1881 alone Alexander Graham Bell is working on a metal detector, David Houston is working on roll films for cameras, and Edward Leveaux is working on an electric piano player.

 

What was the world like in 1881 ?

 

This link to answers.com tells a much wider picture.

 

All of this inventiveness seems to be pointing to a world that is taking a leap forward and not a world that is about to end as the Mother Shipton prophecy of the end of the world in 1881 predicts.