100 Great Nineteenth Century Lives

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In this volume are gathered one hundred of the most outstanding lives of the nineteenth century throughout the world. The men and women of action are here as well as the thinkers scientists inventors and captains of industry as well as reformers composers and artists. They present taken together a kaleidoscope of views and ideas a ferment often as violent and contradictory as that which we experience today. The twentieth century is the child of the nineteenth and the reader in fact may well find that many of the horrors of our time have originated in the whirl and clash of nineteenth century ideas.