1851-70

Updated: May 14, 2025

Vitus' activity, there always came a time of strife, followed only too often by torpor, when the body reduced the head to a state of benumbed subjection. The triumph of rural notions accounts for the reactions of 1831-47, and 1851-70.

John Holland Rose - The Development of the European Nations, 1870-1914 (5th ed.)