#nineteenth

In the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#dead #god #god is dead #man #nineteenth

Reading a novel after reading semiotic theory was like jogging empty-handed after jogging with hand weights. What exquisite guilt she felt, wickedly enjoying narrative! Madeleine felt safe with a nineteenth century novel. There were going to be people in it. Something was going to happen to them in a place resembling the world. Then too there were lots of weddings in Wharton and Austen. There were all kinds of irresistible gloomy men. ↗

— Jeffrey Eugenides

#literary-criticism #literary-theory #narrative #nineteenth-century #novels

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. ↗

— Michael Behe

#biological #century #could #discovered #elegant

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution. ↗

— Arthur Peacocke

#both #catholic #century #embraced #evangelical

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war. ↗

— Robert Higgs

#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character. ↗

— Edward Thorndike

#character #consciousness #emphasized #intellect #last

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. ↗

— Thomas B. Macaulay

#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

In the first quarter of the nineteenth century the experimental proof for the interdependence of the composition and properties of chemical compounds resulted in the theory that they are mutually related, so that like composition governs like properties, and conversely. ↗

— Wilhelm Ostwald

#chemical #composition #compounds #conversely #experimental

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

— Lukas Foss

#began #century #grandiose #idea #inspiration