Im 19. Jahrhundert bestand das Problem darin, dass Gott gestorben war. Im zwanzigsten Jahrhundert besteht das Problem darin, dass der Mensch gestorben istIn the nineteenth century the problem was that God is dead. In the twentieth century the problem is that man is dead.“Eine der Dinge, die so anziehend am 19. Jahrhundert ist, ist, dass es lang genug her ist, um sich exotisch anzufühlen und gleichzeitig nah genug, um noch zugänglich zu sein. Wir können uns in den Menschen wieder erkennen, selbst wenn wir sehen, wie sehr wir uns inzwischen verändert haben.One of the things that draws us to the 19th century is that it's far enough away to feel exotic but close enough to be approachable. We can still recognize ourselves in those people, even as we see all the ways in which our lives have diverged from theirs.Death and vulgarity are the only two facts in the nineteenth century that one cannot explain away.Through blood drawn by lash and blood drawn by sword, we learned that no union founded on the principles of liberty and equality could survive half-slave and half-free. 
