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...term "Christian Art" was first used by Alexis Rio in the nineteenth century to denote all art manifestations in Christendom from early times to our own; the term "Early Christian Art" is reserved for art in the western Christian countries down to the Carolingian period, after which the Romanesque wave swept over Europe. In his study of early Christian architecture, therefore, Professor Conant will take the vagabond who chooses Robinson Hall to Rome and Ravenna, where the chief monuments of the period survive...
Born just in time for the flood of early nineteenth century Romanticism, Robert Owen, son of a Welsh saddle-monger, managed in the course of his long life to embrace most of the intellectual innovations which were awakening England from its lethargy of unadulterated nationalism. Agnosticism, spiritualism, free-love, social reform, the cooperative system--at one time or another he tried them all. But in spite of his tendency toward mere theorizing he was practical enough to ameliorate the condition of the factory workers and to offer, in the shape of his New Lanark experiment, his idea of a model...
...Magna cum laude Harvard '06, technical adviser to the Paris Peace Commission, author of The Second Partition of Poland, The Origin of the War of 1870 and (with Professors Charles Downer Hazen and Archibald Gary Coolidge and the late William R. Thayer) Three Peace Congresses of the Nineteenth Century...
Republican Rome had its Slave Revolt, sixteen century Europe its Peasant Uprisings, the turn of the nineteenth century its Red Terror, and contemporary Western civilization its Third inter-national. The first three were perpetual nightmares to the conservative mind in their respective periods. The last is rapidly becoming...
...General view of the Nineteenth Century," Professor Howard Germanic Museum, German...