“The fundamentalists are insistent that they know best. It's a dictatorial attitude towards personal morality, which is a modern creation that came about in the 19th century.” KnowsAttitudeModernCenturyCreationMorality19th Century Author:Steve Coogan
“Today the crime novelist has one advantage denied to writers of 'straight' or 'literary' novels. Unlike them he can range over all levels of society, for crime can easily breach the barriers that exist in our stratified society. Because of these barriers the modern literary novel, unlike its 19th-century predecessors, is often confined to the horizontal, dealing only with one class. But crime runs through society from top to bottom, and so the crime novelist can present a fuller picture of the way we live now.” WayBookRunningTodayLanguageLevelsClassNovelModernCenturyCrimeAdvantageBottomRangeNovelistsBarriersDeniedConfined19th CenturyPredecessorsBreachHorizontal Book:Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns Source: Life & Letters: The Spectator Columns
“Many of the received models of modern architecture and planning owe their ultimate origin to the building code and public health reform movements of the second half of the 19th century.” HalfModernCenturyMovementBuildingModelsUltimateArchitecturePlanningReformCode19th CenturyPublic HealthModern ArchitectureHealth ReformReform Movements Author:Kenneth Frampton
“In the Middle Ages people took potions for their ailments. In the 19th century they took snake oil. Citizens of today's shiny, technological age are too modern for that. They take antioxidants and extract of cactus instead.” PeopleAgeTodayModernMiddleCenturyCitizensOilTechnologicalSnakesMiddle Ages19th CenturyAilmentsCactusAntioxidants Author:Charles Krauthammer
“His teaching became a turning point in chess history: it was from Steinitz that the era of modern chess began. The contribution of the first world champion to its development is comparable with the great scientific discoveries of the 19th century.” WorldFirstsTeachingModernCenturyDevelopmentDiscoveryChessErasChampionContribution19th CenturyTurning PointsScientific DiscoveryWorld Champions Author:Garry Kasparov
“So, we've gone from covered wagons to going to the moon in just under 100 years. For all the centuries and thousands of years before us, people walked or rode horses, cows, camels or whatever. This so-called modern era, from the late 19th century through now, has been the period of the most amazing development, discovery, innovation and acceleration of change that humans have ever experienced. And it hasn't slowed down yet.” PeopleYearsHumansHas BeensGoneModernCenturyDevelopmentPeriodsMoonLateDiscoveryHorseInnovationErasCoveredCows19th CenturyMost AmazingCamelsWagonsAccelerationModern Era Author:Edgar Mitchell