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“It was the ponderous battering ram of his novels that opened the way through the genteel reticences of American nineteenth-century fiction. . . Without [Theodore] Dreiser's treading out a path for naturalism none of us would have had a chance to publish.”

Way Chance Fiction Novel Path Century Publish Nineteenth Century Naturalism Rams Treading Theodore Reticence Battering

Book:The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

Source: The Best Times: An Informal Memoir

“There is one great fact, characteristic of this our nineteenth century, a fact which no party dares deny. On the one hand, there have started into life industrial and scientific forces which no epoch of former human history had ever suspected. On the other hand, there exist symptoms of decay, far surpassing the horrors recorded of the latter times of the Roman empire. In our days everything seems pregnant with its contrary.”

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.”

Men Young Dies Reading Literature Century Willing Independence Young Man Tension Relaxed Nineteenth Century Manchester Poland Puritan Voluptuous Willing To Die

Book:The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

Source: The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews

“A strange effect of marriage, such as the nineteenth century has made it! The boredom of married life inevitably destroys love, when love has preceded marriage. And yet, as a philosopher has observed, it speedily brings about, among people who are rich enough not to have to work, an intense boredom with all quiet forms of enjoyment. And it is only dried up hearts, among women, that it does not predispose to love.”

Source: The Red and the Black: World Classics

“It is with blows dealt by public contempt that a husband kills his wife in the nineteenth century; it is by shutting the doors ofall the drawing-rooms in her face.”

Faces Rooms Wife Doors Century Husband Blow Revenge Drawing Contempt Nineteenth Century

Book:The Red and the Black

Source: The Red and the Black

“From a long view of the history of mankind the most significant event of the nineteenth century will be judged as Maxwell's discovery of the laws of electrodynamics.”

Long Law Views Mankind Century Events Discovery Significant Judged Nineteenth Century Insignificance Maxwell Significant Events

Book:The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

Source: The Feynman Lectures on Physics, Vol. II: The New Millennium Edition: Mainly Electromagnetism and Matter

“Detachment is the prerogative of an elite; and as the dandy is the nineteenth century's surrogate for the aristocrat in matters ofculture, so Camp is the modern dandyism. Camp is the answer to the problem: how to be a dandy in the age of mass culture.”

Matter Problem Age Culture Answers Modern Century Mass Camps Elites Detachment Nineteenth Century Prerogative Surrogates Dandy Mass Culture Dandyism

Book:A Susan Sontag reader

Source: A Susan Sontag reader

“The use of the word royalty, as fee to a proprietor for the exploitation of a work or property, derives from the period when the sovereign assumed title to all wealth of the realm. It was the struggle for freedom from these encroachments of the state that chiefly marked the Nineteenth Century, and established everywhere constitutional regimes of limited authority. In the Twentieth Century, however, we have witnessed a gradual and almost unrestricted movement back to state authoritarianism, primarily in the economic sphere, accompanied by the spread of state monopoly and intervention.”

“For every nineteenth-century middle-class family that protected its wife and child within the family circle, there was an Irish ora German girl scrubbing floors in that home, a Welsh boy mining coal to keep the home-baked goodies warm, a black girl doing the family laundry, a black mother and child picking cotton to be made into clothes for the family, and a Jewish or an Italian daughter in a sweatshop making "ladies" dresses or artificial flowers for the family to purchase.”

“Current conflicts and guilt about being a woman who is a mother and a person in her own right are a socially defined malaise, notan individual problem.... The conflict is not between being a mother and having a career; it is between nineteenth-century ideas about children and today's ideas about women.”

Children Persons Ideas Problem Today Mother Individual Women Work Careers Century Conflict Guilt Currents Defined Men Women Being A Woman Nineteenth Century Being A Mother Malaise

Author:Sandra Scarr

“I conceive that the leading characteristic of the nineteenth century has been the rapid growth of the scientific spirit, the consequent application of scientific methods of investigation to all the problems with which the human mind is occupied, and the correlative rejection of traditional beliefs which have proved their incompetence to bear such investigation.”

Source: Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley

“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.”

World Law Political Principles Century Design Taught Divine Intelligent Trade International Creator Physics Biology Economist Nineteenth Century Intelligent Design International Trade

Author:Daniel Walker Howe

“Monarchs not only fashion their age, but are fashioned by it, so that they can become a sort of personification of the age. If Elizabeth I, independent, strong, represents the age of Shakespeare's heroines, a woman's heyday, Victoria represents another image of womanhood, predominant in the nineteenth century: a woman who, although queen in her own right, leaned on her husband, looked up to him, and went into perpetual mourning after his death. The feminist movement filled her with shocked horror and outrage.”

“Posterity--the forlorn child of nineteenth century optimism--grows ever harder to conceive.”

Children Grows Century Optimism Harder Posterity Nineteenth Century Forlorn

Author:Mason Cooley

“You have read and heard that communist theory-the science of communism created in the main by Marx, this doctrine of Marxism-has ceased to be the work of a single socialist of the nineteenth century, even though he was a genius, and that it has become the doctrine of millions and tens of millions of proletarians all over the world, who are applying it in their struggle against capitalism.”

World Millions Struggle Heard Century Theory Genius Capitalism Doctrine Communism Communist Socialist Marxism Nineteenth Century

Book:Lenin on Literature and Art

Source: Lenin on Literature and Art

“We must succumb to the general influence of the times. No man can be of the tenth century, if he would; be must be a man of the nineteenth century.”

Ifs Men Would Be Influence Century Be A Man Nineteenth Century Ingratitude

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“In the middle years of the nineteenth century there first became abundant in this strange world of ours a class of men, men tending for the most part to become elderly, who are called, and who are very properly called, but who dislike extremely to be called--"Scientists.”

Men World Years Firsts Book Class Middle Century Strange Scientist Dislike Elderly Nineteenth Century Strange World

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. G. Wells

“The social problem of the twentieth century is whether civilized nations can restore themselves to sanity after their nineteenth-century aberrations of individualism and capitalism.”

Problem Nations Social Century Capitalism Civilized Sanity Individualism Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century Social Problems Aberration Civilized Nations

Author:Albion Woodbury Small

“I never meant to marry. In my opinion, a woman born in the last half of the nineteenth century of the Christian era suffered from enough disadvantages without willfully embracing another.”

Enough Christian Lasts Born Half Opinion Century Eras Disadvantages Nineteenth Century

Author:Barbara Mertz

“The major break in the understanding of manliness is not between, say, the nineteenth century and any particular preceding era but between my generation of Baby Boomers and the entire proceeding complex of teachings. In some ways, TR and Churchill have more in common with Homer and Shakespeare than they do with us.”

Men Way Understanding Common Break Generations Teaching Century Particular Baby Majors Complexes Eras Manhood My Generation Nineteenth Century Proceeding Manliness Boomers Baby Boomer

Author:Waller R Newell

“In the early nineteenth century, the doctrine of self-sufficiency came to apply to families as well as individuals.... The familybecame a special protected place, the repository of tender, pure, and generous feelings (embodied by the mother) and a bulwark and bastion against the raw, competitive, aggressive, and selfish world of commerce (embodied by the father).... In performing this protective task, the good family was to be as self-sufficient as the good man.”

“American family life has never been particularly idyllic. In the nineteenth century, nearly a quarter of all children experienced the death of one of their parents.... Not until the sixties did the chief cause of separation of parents shift from death to divorce.”

Children Causes Parent Family Century Divorce Separation Chiefs Quarters Sixty Family Life Nineteenth Century American Family Idyllic

Book:Childhood's Future

Source: Childhood's Future

“The nineteenth century was the last moment in history when a relatively educated layperson could follow what was going on in the world of science and invention to a wide degree. Also, there were no "professionals". This was a time when amateur explorers, naturalists and enthusiasts were are still making major contributions to progress.”

World Stills Moments Lasts Progress Century Degrees Majors Wide Invention Educated Contribution Nineteenth Century Explorers Naturalist

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature.”

Men Middle Century Believer Pursuit Ministers Leisure Nineteenth Century Majestic Naturalist

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“In the name of economy a thousand wasteful devices would be invented; and in the name of efficiency new forms of mechanical time-wasting would be devised: both processes gained speed through the nineteenth century and have come close to the limit of extravagant futility in our own time. But labor-saving devices could only achieve their end-that of freeing mankind for higher functions-if the standard of living remained stable. The dogma of increasing wants nullified every real economy and set the community in a collective squirrel-cage.”

“If anything qualifies as an irony of history it would be this: that Marx and Engels throughout the nineteenth century wrote about America the United States as the great country of the future, of freedom and equality and a good life for the working man, and a country of revolution and emancipation, and of Russia as the great country of despotism, backwardness, savagery and superstition.”

“The director was only invented in the nineteenth century. So directors have only been around for 200 year,s and playwrights have been around since Sophocles and Euripides.”

Years Has Beens Century Directors Playwright Nineteenth Century

Author:Sarah Ruhl

“In the nineteenth century, government agencies in Washington had, almost without exception, flatly refused to hire even one female.”

Government Century Female Agency Exception Nineteenth Century Government Agencies

Author:David Brinkley

“Nevertheless, what was made in the hope of transforming the world need not be rejected because it failed to do so – otherwise, one would also have to throw out a good deal of the greatest painting and poetry of the nineteenth century. An objective political failure can still work as a model of intellectual affirmation or dissent.”

Source: The Shock of the New

“The financial history of the Baltimore and Ohio since the close of the nineteenth century is interesting chiefly in connection with changes in the control of the property”

Interesting Economy Century Connections Property Financial Nineteenth Century Ohio Baltimore

Book:The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

Source: The Railroad Builders: A Chronicle of the Welding of the States

“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it.”

Used Artist Century Photography Invention Frightened Nineteenth Century

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“Only the bad artists of the nineteenth century were frightened by the invention of photography; the good ones all welcomed it and used it. Degas liked it not only because it provided an accurate record, but because the snapshot showed him a means of escape from the classical rules of design. Through it he learnt to make a composition without the use of formal symmetry.”

Mean Use Used Artist Records Century Design Photography Invention Frightened Accurate Composition Formal Nineteenth Century Symmetry Snapshots Degas

Book:The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

Source: The romantic rebellion: romantic versus classic art

“In the mid nineteenth century, the typical murderer was a drunken illiterate; a hundred years later the typical murderer regards himself as a thinking man.”

Thinking Men Years Century Hundred Regard Typical Murderer Nineteenth Century Illiterate Thinking Man

Author:Colin Wilson

“Until the late-nineteenth-century the House of Commons maintained a formal ban on the reporting of its debates.”

House Century Late Debate Formal Bans Nineteenth Century House Of Commons

Book:Secrecy in Britain

Source: Secrecy in Britain

“We must face the fact that we are on the brink of times when man may be able to magnify his intellectual and inventive capability, just as in the nineteenth century he used machines to magnify his physical capacity. Again, as then, our innocence is lost. And again, of course, the innocence, once lost, cannot be regained. The loss demands attention, not denial.”

Men May Facts Able Faces Used Courses Lost Loss Attention Century Demand Intellectual Capacity Machines Innocence Denial Capability Nineteenth Century

Book:Notes on the Synthesis of Form

Source: Notes on the Synthesis of Form

“There was this enormous burst of sculptural creative juice in the nineteenth century, and all that stuff is just so decorative. Even in pieces cast from a mold, you get a more sensuous, handmade, individual sense from it.”

Individual Stuff Creative Pieces Century Casts Enormous Juice Mold Nineteenth Century Sensuous Handmade Creative Juices

Author:Hugh Hardy

“Most of what I read is for reviewing purposes or related to something I want to write about. It's slightly utilitarian. I definitely miss that sense of being a disinterested reader who's reading purely for the pleasure of imagining his way into emotional situations and vividly realized scenes in nineteenth-century France or late nineteenth-century Russia.”

Way Want Writing Purpose Reading Pleasure Situation Century Missing Emotional Reader Scene Late Russia France Related Nineteenth Century Disinterested Utilitarian

Author:Pankaj Mishra

“Baseball is a nineteenth-century pastoral game. Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle.”

Games Struggle Century Football Baseball Technological Twentieth Century Nineteenth Century

Book:The Best of Brain Droppings

Source: The Best of Brain Droppings

“He[Napoleon] had destroyed only one thing: the Jacobin Revolution, the dream of equality, liberty and fraternity, and of the people rising in its majesty to shake off oppression. It was a more powerful myth than his, for after his fall it was this, and not his memory, which inspired the revolutions of the nineteenth century, even in his own country.”

People Country Dream Fall Memories Powerful Liberty One Thing Century Revolution Inspired Myth Oppression Destroyed Rising Shakes Majesty Nineteenth Century Fraternity

Author:Eric Hobsbawm

“Beginning in the nineteenth century, with performers like Franz Liszt, were musicians who were able to excite an audience and communicate on a whole new level.”

Whole Able Levels Audience Century Musician Communicate Performers Nineteenth Century

Author:David Finckel

“America's business problem is that it is entering the twenty-first century with companies designed during the nineteenth century to work well in the twentieth.”

Firsts Wells Problem America Company Century Twenties Entering Nineteenth Century Business Problems

Author:Michael Martin Hammer

“The idea that Christianity is basically a religion of moral improvement... has its roots in the liberal Protestantism of the late nineteenth century and early twentieth century... It is this stereotype which continues to have influence today... But then came the First World War... What had gone wrong was that the idea of sin had been abandoned by liberal Christianity as some kind of unnecessary hangover from an earlier and less enlightened period in Christian history.”

“Seek out some retired and old-world spot, far from the madding crowd, and dream away a sunny week among its drowsy lanes - some half-forgotten nook, hidden away by the fairies, out of reach of the noisy world - some quaint-perched eyrie on the cliffs of Time, from whence the surging waves of the nineteenth century would sound far-off and faint.”

World Dream Sound Half Week Century Forgotten Wave Crowds Spots Fairy Retired Cliffs Sunny Lanes Nineteenth Century Noisy Old World Quaint Drowsy

Book:Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

Source: Three Men in a Boat and Three Men on the Bummel

“... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)”

Men Given Century Terrible Rate Poison Antidote Nineteenth Century Daguerreotypes

Book:Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

Source: Ruskin, Turner and the Pre-Raphaelites

“The invention of photography has dealt a mortal blow to the old modes of expression, in painting as well as in poetry, where automatic writing, which appeared at the end of the nineteenth century, is a true photography of thought. Since a blind instrument now assured artists of achieving the aim they had set themselves up to that time, they now aspired, not without recklessness, to break with the imitation of appearances.”

Writing Wells Ends Artist Break Achieve Century Painting Expression Photography Aim Instruments Blind Blow Appearance Invention Mortals Imitation Assured Nineteenth Century Recklessness

Author:Andre Breton

“I think that life is incredibly violent and that individual people are incredibly violent on one level or another. I don't try to change life to suit my writing; in a certain way I'm a naturalist of the nineteenth century school.”

People Thinking Way Writing Trying School Life Is Certain Individual Levels Century Violent Suits Life Changing Nineteenth Century Naturalist

Author:Richard Grossman

“The nineteenth-century way of looking at the photograph was as a mirror for the memory, and at that time the photographs almost looked like mirrors, with their polished metallic surfaces.”

Way Memories Century Mirrors Photograph Surface Nineteenth Century Polished Metallic

Book:Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

Source: Inside the Photograph: Writings on Twentieth-century Photography

“Photography mirrored the [nineteenth century] will towards rigor, towards defining details, the need for miniscule description, the long-distance optics, for technology at the service of truth, for concepts of credibility, of objectivity, the need to archive, for the consolidation of institutions like the museum, in short, towards a need to control memory.”

“Now that photography is a digital medium, the ghost of painting is coming to haunt it: photography no longer retains a sense of truth. I think that's great, because it frees photography from factuality, the same way photography freed painting from factuality in the mid-nineteenth century.”

Thinking Way Century Painting Photography Ghost Mediums Digital Nineteenth Century

Author:Vik Muniz

“Presented with the claims of nineteenth-century racist anthropology, a rational person will ask two sorts of questions: 'What is the scientific status of the claims?' 'What social or ideological needs do they serve?'”

Needs Persons Two Asks Social Century Claims Rational Racist Ideological Anthropology Nineteenth Century

Book:For Reasons Of State

Source: For Reasons Of State

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