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...great contributions of the nineteenth century to international law," he said in tracing the history of his subject, "are the divorcement of international law and religion and the widening of the circle of nations affected...
...Rhodes scholarships were at bottom a political gesture in a broad sense of that term. They were designed not for their influence on knowledge so much as for their influence on the students, and they were a picturesque reflection of the nineteenth century's belief in political and social salvation through mass schooling and the dissemination of knowledge. But while the dissemination of knowledge has done a great deal it has not done all that was hoped for it. The Guggenheim scholarships are designed not for the students but for the study they may do, and they reflect the awakening...
...Nineteenth Century Americans might as well have banished Baroum...
...surprising to road that he is unalterably opposed to the League of Nations; it is more surprising to know that he is opposed to huge family legacies. What is astonishing is to recognize his economic theories as those which were exploded in the middle of the nineteenth century...
Selecting only twenty-six names from the galaxy of genius which the nineteenth century brought forth, he includes only one Englishman among them. This fortunate is Sir Walter Scott. With a Pecksniffian wave of his hand, he disposes of all the array of poetic brilliance from Wordsworth to Tennyson. It is evident on the face of it that Signor Croce has not written a history of European literature in the nineteenth century...