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“It is nineteenth century up-to-date with a vengeance. And yet, unless my senses deceive me, the old centuries had, and have, powers of their…

— Bram Stoker

“...in one hundred years we have lost the best human virtues of the nineteenth century: fervent idealism and the primacy of feeling: the shock…

— Gabriel García Márquez

“The problem that will doubtless interest future historians is not so much the presence, in the twentieth century, of mass political alienation, but the…

— Lawrence Goodwyn

“Modern society has subsided into a culture of deceit.”

— Steven Redhead

“Contemporary citizens have become more deluded in their servitude than any previous generation. Somnambulant automata, many critics have observed, sadly allowing slavery to be…

— David Parry

“Towards the end of the nineteenth century there appeared its two incredible figures; they were the pure Conservative and the pure Progressive; two figures…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In this nineteenth century, the religious idea is undergoing a crisis. People are unlearning certain things, and they do well, provided that, while unlearning…

— Victor Hugo

“This emphasis calls into question some of the most ingrained insights into the history of the modern world—for example, conceptualizing the nineteenth century, as…

— Sven Beckert

“as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all. The nineteenth century”

— Oscar Wilde

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is great, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then, there will be nothing more like the history of old,…

— Victor Hugo

“Citizens, the nineteenth century is grand, but the twentieth century will be happy. Then there will be nothing more like old history. Men will…

— Victor Hugo

“In my opinion,' he said, 'the nineteenth century is passing for everyone except us.”

— Gabriel García Márquez