Also, if you around, you can see farmer's walls hand built out of stone. That would be a feat impossible for the men of today.

https://archive.ph/qiUyU Modern men have significantly decreased testosterone, strength, grip strength, and fertility from just the last couple generations.

The Victorian people could have been twice as strong, more intelligent, and more driven to create. Look what Germany built in just a few years in the 1930s. From the sick man of Europe to a prosperous economic miracle.