Sentences with phrase «end of the nineteenth century»

Students examine the pressures on European Jews as they moved away from the shtetls to larger urban centers at end of the nineteenth century.

Russia at the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century was developing quite dynamically, and had they gone on that way it would have been much better.

On this basis existentialist philosophers revolted against the deterministic philosophical theories which dominated a great deal of thought at the end of the nineteenth century.

What we have had in British political life under British common law is a procrustean class system, one of the most fixed in the world, confirming aristocratic and plutocratic class rule, rigidly preventing the overwhelming numbers of the lower class from gaining equality, representation in government, decent working conditions, the right to union organization, suffrage, and acceptable living standards until the end of the nineteenth century.

I will use the generic term «sign» from the semiotic tradition revived by Charles Peirce at the end of the nineteenth century to stand for any object of interpretation.

It was exactly in these years, the end of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth, that colleges such as those mentioned made the break with their past and were transformed into universities, whereas others like Wesleyan, Union, Haverford, Randolph - Macon, and Kenyon did not.

’51 This is how Caley, an Anglican missionary who greatly influenced the attitudes and the policies of the CMS mission in Travancore until the end of the nineteenth century, referred to Pulaya Christians.

By the end of the nineteenth century that view became dominant throughout the scientific world.

The history of evangelical Christianity in Korea begins in earnest at the end of the nineteenth century.

By the end of the nineteenth century, Jeffersonian secularism had emerged from the margins of the American political culture.

Bruce Kuklick, in his Rise of American Philosophy, thinks that Palmer was key to keeping Charles Sanders Peirce out of the department — Peirce being the deepest student of the subject of social testimony at the end of the nineteenth century.

Even the decline of Christendom was hardly noticed until after the end of the nineteenth century.

Hayek recognized that at the end of the nineteenth century, when the term «social justice» came to prominence, it was first used as an appeal to the ruling classes to attend to the needs of the new masses of uprooted peasants who had become urban workers.

Already by the end of the nineteenth century, theology was losing credibility as an academic discipline, often finding no place in the new secular universities in the twentieth century.

At the end of the nineteenth century many Protestants believed that American had been chosen by God to transform the whole world into the kingdom of God on earth.

At the end of the nineteenth century it appeared as though Western culture was beginning to come to terms with human life as persons actually live it.

At the very moment at the end of the nineteenth century that the universities were consolidating the triumph of objectivism, many of the religious were claiming that religion meant dogmatism based upon a peculiar reading of the Scriptures (Genesis as a geology text.

With physics dominating the end of the nineteenth century; scientific determinism was widely preached: since physical laws are necessarily and universally valid, nothing escapes them.

And by the end of the nineteenth century, the Western church was deeply implicated in the affairs of every continent as a result of missionary activity, trade, colonization, and war.

By the end of the nineteenth century, however, nonsectarianism was beginning to have to be defined to include more than just varieties of Protestantism.

Two major pressures combined to bring the collapse of this clerically controlled classicist education by the end of the nineteenth century.

A school of modern art that left its mark on an extraordinary number of wonderful Budapest buildings and dates from the end of the nineteenth century is called, in the West, «Art Nouveau» and, in Hungary (eccentrically), «Secession Art.»

As Emory Professor Gary Laderman has written, by the end of the nineteenth century, «intimacy with the naked truth of death, as it was embodied by the corpse, was no longer a necessary part of social life (The Sacred Remains, 175).»

A second crisis occurred for science at the end of the nineteenth century as the analysis of subatomic entities, and especially of light, forced it to give up the common sense worldview to which it had long been attached.

Towards the end of the nineteenth century, international Protestant missionary gatherings began to be held, and in 1910 a significant and remarkable World Missionary Conference was held in Edinburgh.

Regardless of one's own beliefs, there is something undeniably satisfying about the fact that the world of classical music at the end of the twentieth century is dominated by three men who can say of tonality what G. K. Chesterton said of his rediscovery of religious faith: «I freely confess all the idiotic ambitions of the end of the nineteenth century.

Compared to the influence of church leaders through the public press and platform at the end of the nineteenth century, the church has steadily lost ground as worthy of coverage as «news» by public media.

Already at the end of the nineteenth century, Thorstein Veblen argued that consumption isn't merely a matter of rational economic calculation.

By the end of the nineteenth century the connection of national prosperity with national morality was so common that union leaders, politicians, and pastors all talked of «Christianizing the world in our lifetime.»

For Troeltsch the essence of the Christian ethic by the end of the nineteenth century had come to mean four essential theses, all derived from the double love commandment.

And it was perfected in American universities by the likes of Andrew Dickson White, the first president of Cornell University, who provided the theory with intellectual ballast in his heavily annotated A History of the Warfare of Science with Theology at the end of the nineteenth century.