‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’

 ‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’
Google translate：‘當亞當鑽研而夏娃跨越時，那位先生是誰？
差很多。
我想，這是指"亞當、夏娃之間"你迎我拒"時，誰還客氣裝紳士！"


William Morris Gallery 01.06.2020

Socialist banner (c.1890s)

When William Morris was 49 he crossed ‘the river of fire’ and became a revolutionary socialist. He had always felt uneasy about the disparity between his comfortable lifestyle and the conditions endured by most of the British working classes. In the 1880s he began working towards overthrowing the system that enabled the rich to profit from their labour, going on marches, writing articles and lecturing all over the country.

When Morris and his comrades attended rallies, they carried banners to identity their political allegiance. The image of Adam and Eve on this banner has been borrowed from Burne-Jones’s illustration to Morris’s socialist novel ‘A Dream of John Ball’, about a priest who was one of the leaders of the Great Revolt in 1381. Ball believed all people were created equal, asking ‘When Adam delved and Eve span, who was then the gentleman?’https://www.instagram.com/p/CA5aWEnoKe_/