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Harrison, William Henry. "Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1841, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 11.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 11.

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Mill, John Stuart. Principles of Political Economy. London: John W. Parker, 1848, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Mill, John Stuart. "Principles of Political Economy." Principles of Political Economy with Chapters on Socialism, edited by Jonathan Riley. Oxford University Press, 2008, bk. 2, ch. 1, sect. 6.

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." New Monthly Magazine, Oct. 1840 - Feb. 1841.

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Hood, Thomas. "Miss Kilmansegg and Her Precious Leg." Selected Poems of Thomas Hood. Harvard University Press, 1970.

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Fuller, Margaret. "The Great Lawsuit - Man versus Men: Woman versus Women." The Dial, July 1843.

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Fuller, Margaret. Woman in the Nineteenth Century. Dover Publications, 1999.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." The Strayed Reveller, and Other Poems. London: B. Fellowes, 1849, I. 213.

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Arnold, Matthew. "Resignation." Dover Beach and Other Poems. Dover Publications, 2012, I. 213.

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Macaulay, Thomas Babington. "Von Ranke." Edinburgh Review, Oct. 1840.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present. London: Chapman and Hall, 1843, bk. 3, ch. 4.

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Carlyle, Thomas. Past and Present, edited by David R. Sorensen and Brent E. Kinser. Oxford University Press, 2023, bk. 3, ch. 4.

More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.

R. S. Surtees

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Surtees, Robert Smith. The Analysis of the Hunting Field. London: Rudolph Ackermann, 1846, ch. 1.

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Hood, Thomas. "The Lady's Dream." Hood’s Own. London: Edward Moxon, 1862. Originally published in Hood's Magazine and Comic Miscellany, 1844.

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Smith, Sydney. Quoted in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith, by Saba Holland. Vol. 1, London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855, ch. 9.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Qu'est-ce que le romantisme?" Salon de 1846. 1846.

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Baudelaire, Charles. "Salon of 1846." Baudelaire: Selected Writings on Art and Literature, translated by P. E. Charvet. Penguin Classics, 1993.

Germany above all.

August Heinrich Hoffman [von Fallersleben]

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Hoffmann, August Heinrich. "Das Lied der Deutschen [The Song of the Germans]." Composed by Joseph Haydn. 1841.

It takes all sorts to make a world.

Douglas Jerrold

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Jerrold, Douglas. The Story of a Feather. London: Punch Office, 1844, ch. 28.

It is a test of true theories not only to account for but to predict phenomena.

William Whewell

The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, London: John W. Parker, 1840.

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Whewell, William. The Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences: Founded Upon Their History. Vol. 1, Cambridge University Press, 2014.

Men, it has been well said, think in herds; it will be seen that they go mad in herds, while they only recover their senses slowly, and one by one.

Charles Mackay

Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds

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Mackay, Charles. "National Delusions." Memoirs of Extraordinary Popular Delusions. Vol. 1, London: Richard Bentley, 1841.

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Hood, Thomas. "Ode to Rae Wilson, Esquire." Athenæum, 12 Aug. 1837.