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...nineteenth century artificial meadows were made, ownership became precise, and hunting restrictions were enforced. The Revolution did away with collective ownership, without which it would have been impossible to supply the wants of the population. Progressive civilization is a conquest of the present, which has done away with individual ownership...
Munsey--"The Nineteenth Century's Greatest Singers," by W. J. Henderson...
...Avenel asserted that economic evolutions are independent of social changes, and have no points in common with them. The nineteenth century, in which social equality has attained to a greater extent than ever before, has witnessed the birth of great inequality in fortunes. Upon the fortunes of the laboring classes, the progress of a country has really no affect, as is seen in certain periods of French history, especially in the fifteenth and eighteenth centuries...
During the first half of the nineteenth century, socialism was Utopian, and therefore ineffective, but in the middle of the century Karl Marx gave it what was supposed to be a foundation in actual science. The formula of Marx is that all wealth is due to labor, and therefore all wealth is due to the laborers. His scheme was to have the product of an hour of labor exchange for the product of an hour's labor in any other employment...
...half-course, one of the "Afternoon and Saturday Courses for Teachers," will begin on February 9. The name of the course is "The Contemporary German Drama; Interpretation, Discussion, and Criticism of the More important Works of the German Dramatists of the Nineteenth Century", and it will be conducted by Mr. W. G. Howard, instructor in German. The course is offered as a continuation of Professor Kuenemann's course on "Das deutsche Drama der Gegenwart." The intention is to supplement and illustrate Professor Kuehnemann's lectures by the detailed examination of particular plays. The course will be conducted in English...