1870s

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To kill an error is as good a service as, and sometimes even better than, the establishing a new truth or fact.

Charles Darwin

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Scientific progress Progress Science

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

Letters of Charles Darwin

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. Letter to A. S. Wilson, 5 Mar. 1879.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. "To A. S. Wilson, 5 March 1879." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 27: 1879. Cambridge University Press, 2020, no. 11917.

Life is the farce which everyone has to perform.

Arthur Rimbaud

A Season in Hell

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Topic

Life as performance Living inauthentically Life

Author

Arthur Rimbaud

Source

A Season in Hell

Medium

Poem

Language

French

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Original Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. Une Saison en Enfer [A Season in Hell]. Bruxelles: Self-published, 1873.

Current Citation

Rimbaud, Arthur. "A Season in Hell." Arthur Rimbaud: Complete Works, translated by Paul Schmidt. Harper Perennial, 2008.

A lover without indiscretion is no lover at all.

Thomas Hardy

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Topic

Lovers

Speaker

Young Painter

Author

Thomas Hardy

Source

The Hand of Ethelberta

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Hardy, Thomas. "The Hand of Ethelberta." Cornhill Magazine, July 1875-May 1876. Monthly serial.

Current Citation

Hardy, Thomas. The Hand of Ethelberta, edited by Tim Dolin. Penguin Classics, 1998.

The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next.

Matthew Arnold

God and the Bible

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Topic

Intellectual history Progress

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

God and the Bible

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Arnold, Matthew. God and the Bible. London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1875.

It is my firm conviction that the civilized world is tending toward republicanism, or government by the people through their chosen representatives, and that our own great Republic is destined to be the guiding star to all others.

Ulysses S. Grant

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Topic

Spread of freedom and democracy America and the world Democracy Political progress

Speaker

Ulysses S. Grant

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

I cannot look at the universe as the result of blind chance, yet I can see no evidence of beneficent design, or indeed of design of any kind, in the details.

Charles Darwin

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Topic

Origin of the universe

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

Letters of Charles Darwin

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. Letter to J. D. Hooker. 12 July 1870.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. "To J. D. Hooker, 12 July 1870." The Correspondence of Charles Darwin, edited by Frederick Burkhardt and James A. Secord. Vol. 18: 1870. Cambridge University Press, 2010, no. 7273.

A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

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Author

Samuel Butler (Novelist)

Source

Life and Habit

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Inversion

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Butler, Samuel. Life and Habit. London: Trübner and Co., 1877, ch. 8.

Success is a result; it must not be a goal.

Gustave Flaubert

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Topic

Success

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1876 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to George Sand. 6 Feb. 1876.

Current Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. The Letters of Gustave Flaubert, edited and translated by Francis Steegmuller. Vol. 2, Harvard University Press, 1980.

The secret of success is constancy of purpose.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Success Singlemindedness Persistence

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Speech in London. National Union of Conservative and Constitutional Associations. 24 June 1872, Crystal Palace, London, England, UK.

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Purpose of the university

Speaker

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

Speeches of Benjamin Disraeli

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. Adjourned debate on Bill 55. House of Commons. 11 Mar. 1873, The Palace of Westminster, London, England, UK.

The effects of the late civil strife have been to free the slave and make him a citizen. Yet he is not possessed of the civil rights which citizenship should carry with it. This is wrong, and should be corrected.

Ulysses S. Grant

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant

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Reconstruction Civil rights

Speaker

Ulysses S. Grant

Source

Second Inaugural Address of Ulysses S. Grant Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1873 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Grant, Ulysses S. "Second Inaugural Address." 4 Mar. 1873, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.

If a little knowledge is dangerous, where is the man who has so much as to be out of danger?

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Knowledge

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

On Elemental Instruction in Physiology

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "On Elemental Instruction in Physiology." 1877. Lecture.

Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.

Lord Acton

The History of Freedom in Antiquity

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Topic

Freedom Political theory Politics

Author

Lord Acton

Source

The History of Freedom in Antiquity

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Lord Acton. "The History of Freedom in Antiquity." 26 Feb. 1877, Bridgnorth Institute, Bridgnorth, England, UK. Address.

The great tragedy of Science-the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Science

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

Biogenesis and Abiogenesis

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

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Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "Biogenesis and Abiogenesis." British Association for the Advancement of Science meeting. 1870, London, England, UK.

Gift, like genius, I often think, only means an infinite capacity for taking pains.

Ellice Hopkins

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Topic

Persistence

Author

Ellice Hopkins

Source

Work Amongst Working Men

Genre

Historical literature

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Hopkins, Jane Ellice. Work Amongst Working Men. Strahan and Company, 1879, ch. 4.

Mathematics is the science which draws necessary conclusions.

Benjamin Peirce

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Topic

Mathematics Science

Author

Benjamin Peirce

Source

Linear Associative Algebra

Medium

Academic journal

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Peirce, Benjamin. Linear Associative Algebra. Van Nostrand, 1882, sect. 1.

The Queen is most anxious to enlist everyone who can speak or write to join in checking this mad, wicked folly of Women's Rights with all its attendant horrors on which her poor, feeble sex is bent, forgetting every sense of womanly feeling and propriety.

Queen Victoria

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Topic

Women's rights

Author

Queen Victoria

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1870 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Queen Victoria. Letter to Theodore Martin. 29 May 1870.

Current Citation

Queen Victoria. Quoted in The Women's Suffrage Movement: A Reference Guide 1866-1928, written by Elizabeth Crawford. Routledge, 2003.

The sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquility which religion is powerless to bestow.

C.F. Forbes

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Fashion Clothing

Speaker

C.F. Forbes

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Source

Letters and Social Aims

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1875 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Forbes, C. F. Quoted in Letters and Social Aims, written by Ralph Waldo Emerson. James R. Osgood, 1875.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

John Ruskin

The Eagle's Nest

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Topic

Wealth as burden Downsides of wealth

Speaker

John Ruskin

Source

The Eagle's Nest

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1872 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Ruskin, John. Lecture given at the University of Oxford. 22 Feb. 1872, University of Oxford, Oxford, England, UK.

Upon one point there is entire unanimity in public sentiment—that conflicting claims to the Presidency must be amicably and peaceably adjusted, and that when so adjusted the general acquiescence of the nation ought surely to follow.

Rutherford B. Hayes

Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes

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Elections American politics

Speaker

Rutherford B. Hayes

Source

Inaugural Address of Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential inaugural address

Medium

Speech

Genre

Political speech

Language

English

Time

1877 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Hayes, Rutherford B. "Inaugural Address." 5 Mar. 1877, East Portico, US Capitol Building, Washington, DC, USA.