1879

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We are all travellers in what John Bunyan calls the wilderness of this world....and the best that we find in our travels is an honest friend.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Friends Existential solitude Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Genre

Autobiography and memoir Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.

If you were to destroy in mankind the belief in immortality, not only love but every living force maintaining the life of the world would at once, be dried up.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Disenchanted world

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

So long as man remains free he strives for nothing so incessantly and so painfully as to find someone to worship.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Human needs Worship

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Dostoyevsky, Fyodor. "Братья Карамазовы [The Brothers Karamazov]." The Russian Messenger, Jan. 1879 - Nov. 1880. Serial.

Current Citation

Dostoevsky, Feodor. The Brothers Karamazov, translated by David McDuff. Penguin Classics, 2003.

When the views advanced by me in this volume, and by Mr. Wallace, or when analogous views on the origin of species are generally admitted, we can dimly foresee that there will be a considerable revolution in natural history.

Charles Darwin

On the Origin of Species

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Topic

Evolution

Author

Charles Darwin

Source

On the Origin of Species

Genre

Scientific literature

Statement Type

Prophecies and predictions

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species. 6th Edition. London: John Murray, 1879, ch. 14.

Current Citation

Darwin, Charles. The Origin of the Species, edited by William Bynum. Penguin, 2009, ch. 14.

If you tie up a horse to a stake, do you expect he will grow fat? If you pen an Indian up on a small spot of earth, and compel him to stay there, he will not be contented, nor will he grow and prosper. I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say the Indian that he shall stay in one place, while he sees white men going where they please. They can not tell me.

Chief Joseph

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Topic

Native American life US and Native American relations

Speaker

Chief Joseph

Medium

Speech

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Chief Joseph. Speech in Lincoln Hall. 14 Jan. 1879, Lincoln Hall, Washington, DC, USA.

Current Citation

Chief Joseph. "An Indian's Views of Indian Affairs." Great Speeches by Native Americans, edited by Bob Blaisdell. Dover Publications, 2012.

Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving us wordy evidence of the fact.

George Eliot

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Topic

Silence is golden Tact and discretion

Author

George Eliot

Source

The Impressions of Theoprastus Such

Medium

Essay

Statement Type

Proverbs, aphorisms and adages

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Eliot, George. Impressions of Theophrastus Such. Edinburgh/London: William Blackwood and Sons, 1879, ch. 4.

Inequality...has the natural and necessary effect, under the present circumstances, of materializing our upper class, vulgarizing our middle class, and brutalising our lower class.

Matthew Arnold

Equality

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Topic

Economic inequality

Author

Matthew Arnold

Source

Equality

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Arnold, Matthew. "Equality." Mixed Essays. London: Smith, Elder & Co./New York: Macmillan and Co., 1879.

So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.

Henry George

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Topic

Economic inequality Rich vs. poor

Author

Henry George

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

George, Henry. Progress and Poverty: An Inquiry into the Cause of Industrial Depressions and of Increase of Want with Increase of Wealth: The Remedy. Doubleday, Page & Co., 1879, introductory.

Current Citation

George, Henry. The Essence of Progress and Poverty. Dover Publications, 2020, ch. 1.

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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Topic

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.

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.

It is, it is a glorious thing
To be a Pirate King.

W.S. Gilbert

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Topic

Pirates

Speaker

The Pirate King

Author

W.S. Gilbert

Source

Pirates of Penzance

Medium

Opera

Genre

Comedy

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Gilbert, William Schwenck. The Pirates of Penzance; or, The Slave of Duty. Composed by Arthur Sullivan. 31 Dec. 1879, Fifth Avenue Theatre, New York City, NY, USA. act. 1.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Robert Louis Stevenson

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Topic

Purpose of travel Travel

Author

Robert Louis Stevenson

Source

Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1879 1870s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Boston: Roberts Brothers, 1879.

Current Citation

Stevenson, Robert Louis. Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes. Dover Publications, 2019.