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The Spirit of the Age (full title The Spirit of the Age: Or, Contemporary Portraits) is a collection of character sketches by the early 19th century English essayist, literary critic, and social commentator William Hazlitt, portraying 25 men, mostly British, whom he believed to represent significant trends in the thought, literature ...
11 de may. de 2019 · The spirit of the age, 1825 by Hazlitt, William, 1778-1830. Publication date 1971 Topics
- Part I Examiner, 9 Jan., 1831
- Part II Examiner, 23 Jan., 1831
- Part III [Part 1] Examiner, 6 Feb., 1831
- Part III [Part 2] Examiner, 13 Mar., 1831
- Part IV Examiner, 3 Apr., 1831
- Part V [Part 1] Examiner, 15 May, 1831
- Part V [Part 2] Examiner, 29 May, 1831
The “spirit of the age”is in some measure a novelexpression. I do not believe that it is to be met with in any work exceedingfifty years in antiquity. The idea of comparing one’s own age with former ages,or with our notion of those which are yet to come, had occurred to philosophers;but it never before was itself the dominant idea of any age. It is...
I have saidthat the present age is an age of transition:I shall now attempt to point out one of the most important consequences ofthis fact. In all other conditions of mankind, the uninstructed have faithin the instructed. In an age of transition, the divisions among the instructednullify their authority, and the uninstructed lose their faith in th...
The affairs of mankind, or of any of those smallerpolitical societies which we call nations, are always either in one or theother of two states, one of them in its nature durable, the other essentiallytransitory. The former of these we may term the natural state, the latterthe transitional. Society may be said to be in its natural state, when world...
It is not necessaryfor me to point out that untila comparatively recent period, none but the wealthy, and even, I might say,the hereditarily wealthy, had it in their power to acquire the intelligence,the knowledge, and the habits, which are necessary to qualify a man, in anytolerable degree, for managing the affairs of his country. It is not necess...
It has been stated, in the preceding paper,1thatthe conditions which confer worldly power are still, amidst all changes ofcircumstances, the same as in the middle ages—namely, the possession of wealth,or the being employed and trusted by the wealthy. In the middle ages, thisform of government might have been approved, even by a philosopher, if a ph...
In commencing this series of papers,I intended, andattempted, that the divisions of my discourse should correspond with thoseof my subject, and that each number should comprehend within its own limitsall which was necessary to the expansion and illustration of one single idea.The nature of the publication, which, as being read by more persons capab...
In the countrieswhich remained Catholic, but wherethe Catholic hierarchy did not retain sufficient moral ascendancy to succeedin stopping the progress of civilization, the church was compelled, by thedecline of its separate influence, to link itself more and more closely withthe temporal sovereignty. And thus did it retard its own downfal, until th...
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- William Hazlitt
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- 1825
21 de feb. de 2024 · THE. SPIRIT OF THE AGE. OR. CONTEMPORARY PORTRAITS. "To know another well were to know one's self." LONDON: PRINTED FOR HENRY COLBURN, new burlington street. 1825.
In 18th- and 19th-century German philosophy, a zeitgeist (capitalized in German; German pronunciation: [ˈtsaɪtɡaɪst] ⓘ) ("spirit of the age") is an invisible agent, force, or daemon dominating the characteristics of a given epoch in world history.
On the eve of the industrial revolution, and anticipating the political revolutions that were to sweep across Europe in 1848, John Stuart Mill wrote "The Spirit of the Age," an essay that sought to distinguish calm periods of continuity from the turbulent age of historic transition into which his world was then entering.
