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#nineteenth century

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It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.


Michael Behe


#biological #century #could #discovered #elegant

The African American's relationship to Africa has long been ambivalent, at least since the early nineteenth century, when 3,000 black men crowded into Bishop Richard Allen's African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia to protest noisily a plan to recolonize free blacks in Africa.


Henry Louis Gates


#african #allen #ambivalent #american #been

In the nineteenth century, many Anglican theologians, both evangelical and catholic, embraced positively the proposal of evolution.


Arthur Peacocke


#both #catholic #century #embraced #evangelical

Every great movement in the history of Western civilization from the Carolingian age to the nineteenth century has been an international movement which owed its existence and its development to the cooperation of many different peoples.


Christopher Dawson


#been #century #civilization #cooperation #development

Since the end of the nineteenth century, if not earlier, presidents have misled the public about their motives and their intentions in going to war.


Robert Higgs


#century #earlier #end #going #intentions

The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.


Ida B. Wells


#body #century #crowd #cuts #distributes

The commune movement is part of a reawakening of belief in the possibilities for utopia that existed in the nineteenth century and exist again today, a belief that by creating the right social institution, human satisfaction and growth can be achieved.


Rosabeth Moss Kanter


#again #belief #century #commune #creating

On the whole, the psychological work of the last quarter of the nineteenth century emphasized the study of consciousness to the neglect of the total life of intellect and character.


Edward Thorndike


#character #consciousness #emphasized #intellect #last

I shall cheerfully bear the reproach of having descended below the dignity of history if I can succeed in placing before the English of the nineteenth century a true picture of the life of their ancestors.


Thomas B. Macaulay


#bear #before #below #century #cheerfully

The hope that poverty and ignorance may gradually be extinguished, derives indeed much support from the steady progress of the working classes during the nineteenth century.


Alfred Marshall


#classes #derives #during #extinguished #gradually






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