Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century

Name: Famous Men and Great Events of the Nineteenth Century
Author: Morris, Charles

Morris, Charles

Nineteenth century -- History

Scientific Activity of the Nineteenth Century--Wallace's
      "Wonderful Century"--Useful and Scientific Steps of
      Progress--Foster's Views of Recent Progress--Discoveries
      in Astronomy--The Spectroscope--The Advance of
      Chemistry--Light and its Phenomena--Heat as a Mode of
      Motion--Applications of Electricity--The Principles
      of Magnetism--Progress in Geology--The Nebular and
      Meteoric Hypotheses--Biological Sciences--Discoveries in
      Physiology--Pasteur and His Discoveries--Koch and the
      Comma Bacillus--The Science of Hygiene--Darwin and Natural
      Selection                                                      569


                               CHAPTER XL

              Literature and Art in the Nineteenth Century

  Literary Giants of Former Times--The Standing of the Fine Arts
      in the Past and the Present--Early American Writers--The
      Poets of the United States--American Novelists--American
      Historians and Orators--The Poets of Great Britain--British
      Novelists and Historians--Other British Writers--French
      Novelists and Historians--German Poets and Novelists--The
      Literature of Russia--The Authors of Sweden, Norway and
      Denmark--Writers of Italy--Other Celebrated Authors--The
      Novel and its Development--The Text-Book and Progress of
      Education--Wide-spread use of Books and Newspapers             591


                              CHAPTER XLI

        The American Church and the Spirit of Human Brotherhood

  Division of Labor--American Type of Christianity--Distinguishing
      Feature of American Life--The Sunday-school System--The Value
      of Religion in Politics--Missionary Activity--New Religious
      Movements--The Movement in Ethics--Child Labor in
      Factories--Prevention of Cruelty to Animals--Prison
      Reform--Public Executions--The Spirit of Sympathy--The Growth
      of Charity--An Advanced Spirit of Benevolence                  605


                              CHAPTER XLII

                   The Dawn of the Twentieth Century

  The Century's Wonderful Stages--Progress in Education--The
      Education of Women--Occupation and Suffrage
      for Women--Peace Proposition of the Emperor of
      Russia--The Peace Conference at The Hague--Progress in
      Science--Political Evolution--Territorial Progress of the
      Nations--Probable Future of English Speech--A Telephone
      Newspaper--Among the Dull-Minded Peoples--Limitations to
      Progress--Probable Lines of Future Activity--Industry in
      the Twentieth Century--The King, the Priest and the Cash
      Box--The New Psychology                                        617




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  Progress of the Nineteenth Century                      _Frontispiece_

  Duke of Chartres at the Battle of Jemappes                          21

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