If the nineteenth century was the age of the editorial chair, ours is the century of the psychiatrist's couch.
In the nineteenth century, slavery was the greatest wrong, and government never stood so tall as when it was redressing that wrong.
Modern political science started in the late nineteenth century as a branch of history.
Well, well, Henry James is pretty good, though he is of the nineteenth century, and that glaringly.
In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.
The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.
In the nineteenth century the more grandiose word inspiration began to replace the word idea in the arts.
I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
It is not the victory of science that distinguishes our nineteenth century, but the victory of scientific method over science.
The future historian will rank as one of the heroes of the nineteenth century. {Stanton's opinion of the great }
In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.
Galton was a world renowned anthropologist back in the nineteenth century, though he was a big overshadowed by his cousin, Charles Darwin.
Machines were the ideal metaphor for the central pornographic fantasy of the nineteenth century, rape followed by gratitude.
The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
What has been done is little—scarcely a beginning; yet it is much in comparison with the total blank of a century past. And our knowledge will, we are easily persuaded, appear in turn the merest ignorance to those who come after us.
Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.
All three of the great waves of nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century European immigrants to America innovated.
The real difficulty is with the vast wealth and power in the hands of the few and the unscrupulous who represent or control capital. Hundreds of laws of Congress and the state legislatures are in the interest of these men and against the interests of...
The Oracle pursued a logical course of confuting theism, and leaving 'a-theism' the negative result. It did not, in the absurd terms of common religious propaganda, 'deny the existence of God.' It affirmed that God was a term for an existence imagine...
But I did not find any positive inspiration in my studies until I approached my nineteenth year.
