Word: nineteenth
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Dates: during 1900-1909
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...Lectures on the History of Classical Studies. VI. The German Period, Nineteenth Century. Professor Morgan. Harvard...
Flaubert, in what is perhaps his best known novel, "Madame Bovary" studies the problems arising in the second half of the nineteenth century from this mingling of classes. His conclusion is that the effects of too rapid culture on the middle class French woman are pernicious. In this M. Le Roux agrees with him; for, with an ancient race, every-day education must always precede instruction in less tangible matters. Flaubert treats the subject firmly but reverently; his host of imitators, however, have cheapened his art, lost the depth and retained only the sentimental and superficial...
During the seventeenth and most of the eighteenth centuries the French novel portrayed a society with a common ideal. The Revolution, however, broke the frame of this social life, and after the storm was past, each class withdrew to its own circle. The first half of the nineteenth century is well shown by Balzac, with its ideal of commercial honor. But the "bourgeois" class has not been able to receive the rich foreigner as it would like, and only today are they beginning to study and appreciate the energetic, laborious and commercial society of the New World...
...Address. The Study of Religions in the Nineteenth Century. ProfessorGeorge F. Moore. Divinity Chapel...
...Address. The Study of Religions in the Nineteenth Century Professor George F. Moore. Divinity Chapel...