Nineteenth Quotes

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

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.

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

The nineteenth century believed in science but the twentieth century does not.

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.

The book, you understand, was not written for publication. It was the portrayal of my emotions, the analysis of my own soul life during three months of my nineteenth year. I wrote then all the time, just as I do now, but, though the book is in diary form, it is not a diary.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

I was brought up in the great tradition of the late nineteenth century: that a writer never complains, never explains and never disdains.