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“With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.”

“In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.”

Government Century Slavery Tall Nineteenth Century

Author:William Weld

“The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.”

“In nineteenth-century Russia, sauerkraut was valued more than caviar.”

Century Russia Nineteenth Century Caviar Sauerkraut

Book:Salt: A World History

Source: Salt: A World History

“In the nineteenth century, which was a dark and inflationary age in typography, man compositors were encouraged to stuff extra space between sentences. Generations of twentieth-century typists were then taught to do the same, by hitting the spacebar twice after every period. Your typing as well as your typesetting will benefit from unlearning this quaint Victorian habit.”

“Around 1974, I graduated into the occult, and spent a sold six or seven years immersed in the Kabala and the Chaldean, Celtic, and Druidic traditions I also became fascinated with Aleister Crowley, the nineteenth-century magician who shared these beliefs.”

Years Belief Century Six Tradition Seven Fascinated Magician Seven Years Occult Nineteenth Century Celtic

Author:Daryl Hall

“The body's habituation to walking as normal stems from the good olddays. It was the bourgeois form of locomotion: physicaldemythologization, free of the spell of hieratic pacing, rooflesswandering, breathless flight. Human dignity insisted on the right towalk, a rhythm not extorted from the body by command or terror. Thewalk, the stroll, were private ways of passing time, the heritage ofthe feudal promenade in the nineteenth century.”

Way Humans Body Form Century Walking Normal Dignity Terror Passing Passings Command Flight Rhythm Spells Heritage Stem Bourgeois Nineteenth Century Human Dignity Breathless Pacing Promenade

Author:Theodor Adorno

“By putting the spotlight on the female child and framing her as the ideal of beauty, he condemns the mature woman to invisibility. In fact, the modern Western man enforces Immanuel Kant's nineteenth-century theories: To be beautiful, women have to appear childish and brainless. When a woman looks mature and self-assertive, or allows her hips to expand, she is condemned ugly. Thus, the walls of the European harem separate youthful beauty from ugly maturity.”

“Rarely has a collection of essays from a dozen scholars created a whole greater than the sum of its parts, but Capitalism Takes Command conveys with detail, coherence, and sophistication the changes in the American economy in the nineteenth century under the multiple imperatives of capitalism.”

Whole Economy Greater Century Capitalism Details Command Collections Dozen Scholar Multiple Essays Imperatives Nineteenth Century Sophistication Coherence American Economy

Author:Joyce Appleby

“The emancipation of women is practically the greatest egoistic movement of the nineteenth century, and the most intense affirmation of the right of the self that history has yet seen.”

Self Century Movement Intense Selfless Affirmation Nineteenth Century Emancipation

Book:The Century of the Child

Source: The Century of the Child

“In antiquity there was only silence. In the nineteenth century, with the invention of the machine, Noise was born. Today, Noise triumphs and reigns supreme over the sensibility of men.”

Men Today Born Silence Century Machines Supreme Invention Noise Triumph Sensibility Reign Nineteenth Century Antiquity

Author:Luigi Russolo

“Theosophy occupies a central place in the history of new spiritual movements, for the writings of Blavatsky and some of her followers have had a great influence outside of her organization. … The importance of Theosophy in modern history should not be underestimated. Not only have the writings of Blavatsky and others inspired several generations of occultists, but the movement had a remarkable role in the restoration to the colonial peoples of nineteenth century Asia of their own spiritual heritage.”

“I am convinced that when the history of international law comes to be written centuries hence, it will be divided into two periods: the first being from the earliest times to the end of the nineteenth century, and the second beginning with the Hague Conference.”

Firsts Two Ends Law Written Century Periods International Convinced Divided Conferences Nineteenth Century International Law

Author:Ludwig Quidde

“The international proletariat first appeared on the scene in the early Thirties of the nineteenth century, and its first great action was the French Revolution of 1848.”

Firsts Action Century Revolution Scene International Nineteenth Century Proletariat French Revolution

Author:C. L. R. James

“The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.”

Humans Today Belief Social Growth Century Movement Possibility Creating Institutions Satisfaction Utopia Nineteenth Century Communes Social Institutions

Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter

“I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.”

People Knows America My Own Knowing Intellect Nineteenth Century

Author:Margaret Fuller

“In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.”

Art Ideas Inspiration Century Nineteenth Century Grandiose

Author:Lukas Foss

“The novel as we knew it in the nineteenth century was killed off by Proust and Joyce.”

Novel Century Nineteenth Century Joyce Proust

Author:Alberto Moravia

“I would rather be a member of this [Afrikan] race than a Greek in the time of Alexander, a Roman in the Augustan period, or Anglo-Saxon in the nineteenth century.”

Race Century Periods Members Greek Nineteenth Century Anglo Saxon

Book:Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden

Source: Selected Works of Dr. Edward Wilmot Blyden

“Given that the nineteenth century was the century of Socialism, of Liberalism, and of Democracy, it does not necessarily follow that the twentieth century must also be a century of Socialism, Liberalism and Democracy: political doctrines pass, but humanity remains, and it may rather be expected that this will be a century of authority ... a century of Fascism. For if the nineteenth century was a century of individualism it may be expected that this will be the century of collectivism and hence the century of the State.”

Source: My Autobiography: With

“The hope of the nation which throughout the nineteenth century had not for a moment reconciled itself with the loss of independence, and fighting for its own freedom, fought at the same time for the freedom of other nations.”

Moments Fighting Nations Loss Century Independence Nineteenth Century

Author:Lech Walesa

“The plain fact is that there are no conclusions. If we must state a conclusion, it would be that many of the former conclusions of the nineteenth-century science on philosophical questions are once again in the melting-pot.”

Ifs States Facts Would Be Science Century Philosophical Conclusion Former Pot Melting Nineteenth Century Melting Pot Philosophical Questions

Book:Physics and Philosophy

Source: Physics and Philosophy

“If war can indeed be turned into a relic, then the virtue of greed will recede further. From a given society's standpoint, one big upside of wanton material acquisition has traditionally been the way it drives technological progress-which, after all, helps keep societies strong. In the nineteenth century, Russia ans Germany had little choice about modernizing; in those days stasis invited conquest. But if societies no longer face conquest, breakneck technological advance is an offer they can refuse, and frugality a luxury people can afford.”

Source: Nonzero: The Logic of Human Destiny

“If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.”

Ifs Made Games Clear Century Events Havens Chains Ties Nineteenth Century Chain Of Events

Author:John Thorn

“History, when rightly written, is but a record of providence; and he who would read history rightly, must read it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God. This statement of a nineteenth-century historian sums up the responsibility of the Christian teacher of history, for he who would teach history or any subject matter rightly, must teach it with his eyes constantly fixed on the hand of God.”

“What if criticism is a science as well as an art? Not a pure or exact science, of course, but these phrases belong to a nineteenth-century cosmology which is no longer with us.”

Ifs Wells Art Courses Century Pure Criticism Phrases What If Nineteenth Century Cosmology Exact Sciences

Book:Anatomy of Criticism

Source: Anatomy of Criticism

“Alexander von Humboldt’s wide-ranging Views of Nature is a masterpiece of nineteenth-century natural history, at once science and art. Mark W. Person’s stunning new translation makes the wonders of this classic accessible to the English-language world of the present.”

World Persons Art Language Natural Views Wonder Century Mark Wide Classic Masterpiece Translations English Language Nineteenth Century Stunning Art And Science Natural History

Author:Daniel Walker Howe

“Peter Kropotkin...was recognized by friend and foe as one of the greatest minds...of the nineteenth century...The lucidity and brilliance of his mind combined with his warm-heartednes s into the harmonious whole of a fascinating and gracious personality.”

Mind Whole Century Personality Warm Fascinating Peter Foe Gracious Brilliance Harmonious Nineteenth Century Lucidity

Author:Emma Goldman

“The great discovery of the nineteenth century, that we are of one blood with the lower animals, has created new ethical obligations which have not yet penetrated the public conscience. The clerical profession has been lamentably remiss in preaching this obvious duty.”

Has Beens Animal Christianity Blood Century Duty Conscience Discovery Obvious Profession Obligation Ethical Vegetarian Preaching Judaism Nineteenth Century

Author:William Ralph Inge

“Humphry Repton, the leading garden theorist of the nineteenth century, defined a garden as 'a piece of ground fenced off from cattle, and appropriated to the use and pleasure or man: it is, or ought to be, cultivated and enriched by art'.”

Men Art Use Pleasure Pieces Century Ought Garden Defined Nineteenth Century Cattle Theorists

Author:Tom Turner

“The degeneration of the revolution in Russia does not pass from the revolution for communism to the revolution for a developed kind of capitalism, but to a pure capitalist revolution. It runs in parallel with world-wide capitalist domination which, by successive steps, eliminates old feudal and Asiatic forms in various zones. While the historical situation in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries caused the capitalist revolution to take liberal forms, in the twentieth century it must have totalitarian and bureaucratic ones.”

“France placed the state above society , democracy above constitutionalism, and equality above liberty. As a result, for much of the nineteenth century it was democratic, with broad suffrage and elections, but hardly liberal. it was certainly a less secure home for individual freedom than was England or America.”

States Home America Individual Results Liberty Democracy Century England Election Democratic Secure France Broads Nineteenth Century Suffrage Individual Freedom Constitutionalism

Author:Fareed Zakaria

“The nineteenth-century wave of feminism was started by older women who had been through the radicalizing experience of getting married and becoming the legal chattel of their husbands (or the equally radicalizing experience of not getting married and being treated as spinsters).”

Marriage Feminism Century Becoming Husband Married Wave Treated Nineteenth Century Getting Married Older Women Spinsters

Book:Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions

“Percussion music is revolution. Sound and rhythm have too long been submissive to the restrictions of nineteenth century music. Today we are fighting for their emancipation. Tomorrow, with electronic music in our ears, we will hear freedom. At the present stage of revolution, a healthy lawlessness is warranted. Experiment must necessarily be carried on by hitting anything-tin pans, rice bowls, iron pipes-anything we can lay our hands on. Not only hitting, but rubbing, scraping, making sound in every possible way...What we can't do ourselves will be done by machines which we will invent.”

“A day will come when the European god of the nineteenth century will be classed with the gods of Olympus and the Nile.”

God Century Nineteenth Century Olympus Nile

Book:The Martyrdom of Man

Source: The Martyrdom of Man

“I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.”

Ifs I Can Century Bears Succeed Dignity Ancestor Nineteenth Century Reproach

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him reluctantly toward "culture" and away from his "materialistic" preoccupations.”

Today Certain Culture Situation Wife Century Workers Factories Capitalist Nineteenth Century Materialistic Preoccupation Factory Workers

Book:Abundance for What?

Source: Abundance for What?

“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”

People World Made Natural Principles Century Observation Features Shock Selection Elegant Nineteenth Century Natural Selection

Author:Michael Behe

“And now I am eking out my days in my corner, taunting myself with the bitter and entirely useless consolations that an intelligent man cannot seriously become anything; that only a fool can become something. Yes, sir, an intelligent nineteenth-century man must be, is morally bound to be, an essentially characterless creature; and a man of character, a man of action - an essentially limited creature. This is my conviction at the age of forty. I am forty now, and forty years - why, it is all of a lifetime, it is the deepest of old age. Living past forty is indecent, vulgar, immoral!”

“All religions worthy of the name are now making great efforts to purify their doctrines and return to their original standpoint, all except Christianity! You surely know that the nineteenth century Christianity is not the religion taught by Christ. Christ's religion has been changed and corrupted.”

Knows Has Beens Names Christ Effort Christianity Century Changed Taught Return Originals Worthy Doctrine Standpoint Nineteenth Century Great Effort

Author:Virchand Gandhi

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