NINETEENTH CUNTURY LIFE

Abstract

Europeans in the early part of the nineteenih century must have thought of the time before the French Revolution as a dreamlike, far-off period when people lived whose problems and passions, whose fjishions not only of dress, but of thought, were almost grotesquely unlike their own. T he War is to us what the Revolution was to them—a great divide, across which we look at an age that already begins to have a character of remoteness