The age of chivalry is past. Bores have succeeded to dragons.

Benjamin Disraeli

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Topic

Disenchanted world Progress

Speaker

Miss Dacre

Author

Benjamin Disraeli

Source

The Young Duke

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1831 1830s 19th century

Occupation

National leader Politician

From

United Kingdom Europe

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Citation

Disraeli, Benjamin. The Young Duke. Vol. 1, London: Henry Colburn, 1831, bk. 2, ch. 5.

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Another quote from the 1830s

Standing on the bare ground,—my head bathed by the blithe air, and uplifted into infinite space,—all mean egotism vanishes. I become a transparent eye-ball; I am nothing; I see all; the currents of the Universal Being circulate through me; I am part or particle of God.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature

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Topic
Pantheism Interconnectedness of all things

Author

Ralph Waldo Emerson
Source
Nature
Language
English
Time
1836 1830s 19th century
Authentication Score 2
Original Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. Nature. Boston: James Munroe and Company, 1836, ch. 1.

Current Citation

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. "Nature." Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures. Library of America, 1983, ch. 1.

Another quote about Progress

We are like dwarfs on the shoulders of giants, so that we can see more than they, and things at a greater distance, not by virtue of any sharpness of sight on our part, or any physical distinction, but because we are carried high and raised up by their giant size.

Bernard of Chartres

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Topic
Scientific progress Progress
Speaker
Bernard of Chartres

Author

John of Salisbury
Language
Latin
Time
1159 1150s 12th century
Era
Middle Ages
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Bernard of Chartres. Quoted in The Metalogicon of John of Salisbury, written by John of Salisbury. c. 1159, bk. 3.