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.
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 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.
The nineteenth century is called the century of hygiene, and the twentieth is the century of medicine. The twenty-first century may be the century of behavioral change. Changing everyday, long-term behaviors--how we exercise, what we eat--is the key ...
Manet also had an argument with Degas, the end result being that they each returned paintings that they had previous given to each other.
Nineteenth-century grass-roots populism made twentieth-century progressivism possible.
Nineteenth-century English literature I know; 19th-century sewage systems, not so much.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century.
