1880

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Men reject their prophets and slay them, but they love their martyrs and honor those whom they have slain.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Prophets Martyrs

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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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.

In the true marriage relation, the independence of the husband and wife is equal, the dependence mutual and their obligations reciprocal.

Lucretia Mott

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Topic

Equality in relationships Marriage Men and women

Author

Lucretia Mott

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Mott, Lucretia. Spoken by Mott and written down by Susan B. Anthony. c. 1829.

A man is never so on trial as in the moment of excessive good fortune.

Lew Wallace

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

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Topic

Tests of character

Author

Lew Wallace

Source

Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Wallace, Lew. Ben Hur: A Tale of the Christ. Harper & Brothers, 1880, bk. 5, ch. 7.

But what will become of men then? I asked him, without God and immortal life?

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Decline of religion Death of God Existence of God God

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Statement Type

Question

Language

Russian

Time

1880 1880s 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.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and the devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Brothers Karamazov

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Topic

Beauty

Author

Fyodor Dostoevsky

Source

The Brothers Karamazov

Medium

Novel

Language

Russian

Time

1880 1880s 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.

One can live for years sometimes, without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into a single hour.

Oscar Wilde

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Topic

Life The human condition

Speaker

Ivan the Czar

Author

Oscar Wilde

Source

Vera, or The Nihilists

Medium

Play

Genre

Tragic play

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Wilde, Oscar. Vera; or, The Nihilists. London: Ranken & Co., 1880, act 4.

Current Citation

Wilde, Oscar. "Vera; or, The Nihilists." The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Vera; or The Nihilist and Lady Windermere's Fan, edited by Josephine M. Guy. Vol. 11, Oxford University Press, 2021, act 4.

The truth is, that the law is always approaching, and never reaching, consistency. It is forever adopting new principles from life at one end, and it always retains old ones from history at the other, which have not yet been absorbed or sloughed off. It will become entirely consistent only when it ceases to grow.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Topic

Evolution of law Nature of law Law

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." 23 Nov. 1880, The Lowell Institute, Boston, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Early Forms of Liability." The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009.

Eternal peace is a dream, and not even a beautiful one, and war is a link in God's world order. In him, the noblest virtues of man, courage and renunciation, devotion to duty and willingness to sacrifice, unfold with the institution of life. Without the war, the world would become bogged down in materialism.

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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Topic

Praise of war War

Author

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

Medium

Letter

Language

German

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Von Moltke, Helmuth. Letter to Johann Caspar Bluntschli. 11 Dec. 1880.

The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law

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Topic

Legal theory Law

Speaker

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

The Common Law

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Irrationality Reason

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

What is beautiful is moral, that is all there is to it.

Gustave Flaubert

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

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Topic

Moral theory Morality

Author

Gustave Flaubert

Source

Letters of Gustave Flaubert

Medium

Letter

Language

French

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Citation

Flaubert, Gustave. Letter to Guy de Maupassant. 16 Feb. 1880.

Anywhere is better than Paris. Paris the cold, Paris the drizzly, Paris the rainy, Paris the Damnable. More than a hundred years ago, somebody asked Quin, "Did you ever see such a winter in all your life before?" "Yes," said he, "last summer." I judge he spent his summer in Paris.

Mark Twain

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Topic

Paris

Author

Mark Twain

Source

Letters of Mark Twain

Medium

Letter

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

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Citation

Twain, Mark. Letter to Lucius Fairchild. 28 Apr. 1880.

It is the customary fate of new truths to begin as heresies and to end as superstitions.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Ideas Truth Heresy Superstition

Speaker

T.H. Huxley

Source

The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Coming of Age of The Origin of Species." 19 Mar. 1880, Royal Institution, London, England, UK. Lecture.

The law embodies the story of a nation's development through many centuries, and it cannot be dealt with as if it contained only the axioms and corollaries of a book of mathematics.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

The Common Law

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Topic

Nature of law Legal theory Law

Speaker

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

The Common Law

Medium

Lecture

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. "Lecture 1: Early Forms of Liability." Lowell Lectures. 23 Nov. 1880, Lowell Institute, Lowell, MA, USA.

Current Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Jr. The Common Law. Belknap Press, 2009, lecture 1.

I say that there is no such thing as moral responsibility for past acts, no such thing as real justice in punishing them, for the reason that human beings are not stationary existences, but changing, growing, incessantly progressive organisms, which in no two moments are the same. Therefore justice, whose only possible mode of proceeding is to punish in present time for what is done in past time, must always punish a person more or less similar to, but never identical with, the one who committed the offence, and therein must be no justice.

Edward Bellamy

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Topic

Moral theory Theory of punishment

Speaker

Dr. Heidenhoff

Author

Edward Bellamy

Source

Dr. Heidenhoff's Process

Medium

Novel

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Bellamy, Edward. Dr. Heidenhoff's Process. D. Appleton & Company, 1880, ch. 11.

The church is always trying to get other people to reform; it might not be a bad idea to reform itself a little by way of example.

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad

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Topic

The Church Hypocrisy and religion Hypocrisy Religion

Author

Mark Twain

Source

A Tramp Abroad

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, ch. 36.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 36.

We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter.

Mark Twain

A Tramp Abroad

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Topic

Disenchanted world Rainbows Wonder Science Downsides of progress

Author

Mark Twain

Source

A Tramp Abroad

Genre

Travel writing

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 2

Original Citation

Twain, Mark. A Tramp Abroad. Hartford: American Publishing Company, 1880, ch. 43.

Current Citation

Twain, Mark. "A Tramp Abroad." Mark Twain: A Tramp Abroad, Following the Equator, Other Travels, edited by Roy Blount, Jr. Library of America, 2010, ch. 43.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense, differing from the latter only as a veteran may differ from a raw recruit: and its methods differ from those of common sense only as far as the guardsman's cut and thrust differ from the manner in which a savage wields his club.

T.H. Huxley

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Topic

Science

Author

T.H. Huxley

Source

On the Method of Zadig

Medium

Essay

Genre

Scientific literature

Language

English

Time

1880 1880s 19th century

Authentication Score 1

Citation

Huxley, Thomas Henry. "The Method of Zadig." 1880, Working Men's College, London, England, UK. Lecture.