Chapter 24
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- Balzac
- Human Comedy
- Mendeleev
- periodic tables
- Faraday
- electric dynamo
- Volta
- battery
- Mesmer
- magneticism, study body and how affect things, hypnotising/mesmerizing
- Emile Zola
- Therese Raquin
- Comte
- system of positive philosophy (philosophy that stressed observation and scientific approaches to the problems of society.)
- lamark
- long process, took ages to get things.Wrong stating characteristics learned in a lifetime could be transmitted to offspring.
- Darwin
- Origin of species by means of natural selection. Theory of natural selection. decent of man. newton of biology
- Tolstoy
- War and Peace
- Dreiser
- American Tragedy
- Eliot
- The Mill on the Floss
- Lyell
- proved earth was not created by short lived cataclysms.
- Bessemer
- improved steel
- Spencer
- social darwinism. poor die because unfit to survive and should not be helped
- Marx
- the oppression of the working class by the "nobility" will eventually lead to a revolt by the workers and the establishment of a classless society
- Flaubert
- Madame Bovary
- Shelley
- Frankenstein