Long Time No See

We are now into a not so new semester and it is time to begin exercising our intellect with a little more focus and direction.  Zeitgeist presentations are almost finished and hopefully you have been ruminating over how all of these goings on in the 19th century are connected and shaping the history we have to understand, critique, analyze, and live with the results, before we can go out and make the world in our own image.  To that end here is the next prompt for our select blog-ites to respond to....  1)  Look at the following pieces and then write a brief reflection on how these three reflections on the century capture the various topics we have presented in class.  2) After everyone has posted.. this should be done by Thursday Feb. 3rd, you will have until Tuesday, Feb. 8th to make constructive comments, reflections, critiques of two of your peers insights.

Reflections from within the Century

Within these walls the future employer and the future artisan may sojourn together for awhile, and carry, through all their lives, the stamp of the influences then brought to bear upon them. Hence, it is not beside the mark to remind you that the prosperity of industry depends not merely upon the improvement of manufacturing processes, not merely upon the ennobling of the individual character, but upon a third condition, namely, a clear understanding of the conditions of social life on the part of both the capitalist and the operative, and their agreement upon common principles of social action. They must learn that social phenomena are as much the expression of natural laws as any others; that no social arrangements can be permanent unless they harmonize with the requirements of social statics and dynamics; and that, in the nature of things, there is an arbiter whose decisions execute themselves.

Thomas H. Huxley (1825-95):  Science and Culture, 1880; Essays, English and American, with introductions notes and illustrations. New York, P. F. Collier & son [c1910], Harvard classics ; no.XXVI

Honore Daumier, Third Class Carriage 1860-63.

http://www.romanticism-in-art.org/The-Third-class-Carriage-1860-63.html

 

J.M.W. Turner, The Lake of Thun, Switzerland

http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/work/2000-40+lake-of-thun