Although we may infer that Russian realism has its roots in a special spiritual predilection, we must not nevertheless forget the historical conditions which prepared the way for it and made its logical development easy.
— from Contemporary Russian Novelists by Serge Persky

The third circle is called ἰσημερινὸς, which is equivalent to equinoctialis in Latin, for the reason that when the sun comes to this circle it makes equal day and night (for ἰσημερινὸς means in Latin day equal to the night) and by this circle the sphere is seen to be equally divided.
— from An encyclopedist of the dark ages: Isidore of Seville by Ernest Brehaut

Compare M. J. Savage, Religion in the Light of the Darwinian Doctrine ; John William Draper, History of the Conflict between Religion and Science ; Carl Friedrich Retzer, Die naturwissenschaftliche Weltanschauung und ihre Ideale, ein Ersatz fuer das religiöse Dogma (Leipsic, 1890); E. Koch, Natur und Menschengeist im Lichte der Entwickelungslehre (Berlin, 1891).
— from Monism as Connecting Religion and Science A Man of Science by Ernst Haeckel

I come to change the appearance of the ground, this ground; I make it look different each season.
— from Picture-Writing of the American Indians Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1888-89, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1893, pages 3-822 by Garrick Mallery

Men in less deadly earnest, or dealing with doctrines less profound and fundamental, would have formed a close compact early in their history.
— from Fifty Notable Years Views of the Ministry of Christian Universalism During the Last Half-Century; with Biographical Sketches by John G. (John Greenleaf) Adams