Would L. Hartley's line about the past being "a foreign country:

 Would L.P. Hartley's line about the past being “a foreign country: they do things differently there” work for someone living at the end of the period covered by this course, say 1920 and contemplating the world in 1750? Are there any limits to this claim? Are there ways in which the past of 1750 would not have seemed that strange to somebody living in 1920?