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# Briefly: Modernity, 1889-1914
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/briefly-modernity-1889-1914/
- Published: 2025-10-27T12:29:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-10-27T12:30:01.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: Modernity, Briefly

Modernism, the great Jacques Barzun observes, "rightly belongs to those twenty-five years \[1889-1914\] in which nearly every idea in the twentieth century was hatched." [*A Stroll with William James*](https://link.amazon/B0el9keGk?ref=thedailyeudemon.com). 

The catalogue of neat stuff that drives us today either started or became widespread during those 25 years: skyscrapers, welfare programs, divorce, universal literacy, abstractionist art, public libraries, movies, Coca-Cola, fingerprinting, etc. and etc.

Further reading: Jacques Barzun, [*From Dawn to Decadence*](https://link.amazon/B0a0WhwTI?ref=thedailyeudemon.com), 591 *et seq.*