This long spasmodic battle for liberty in Germany, which began with the century, and remains still unsettled, this long series of revolts and concessions and overridings, and hopes flattered and again deferred, this long uncertain babble of Gross-Deutsch and Klein-Deutsch, and Centralist and Federalist and Particularist, of "Gotha ideas" and "new eras" and "blood and iron," had prepared the public ear for bold political solutions, and has entered from the first as an active and not unimportant factor in the socialist agitation.
"Contemporary Socialism"
John Rae
Both, therefore, in a manner, recalled the forces of fiction from the rather straggling and Particularist courses which it had been pursuing for the last quarter of a century.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury
The specialist or Particularist novel was not likely to be without practitioners during this time: in fact it might be said, after a fashion, to be more rife than ever: but it can only be glanced at here.
"The English Novel"
George Saintsbury