1868
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"How it is that anything so remarkable as a state of consciousness comes about as the result of irritating nervous tissue, is just as unaccountable as the appearance of the Djinn when Aladdin rubbed his lamp." --The Elements of Physiology and Hygiene (1868) Thomas Henry Huxley |
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1868 is a year of the 1860s.
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Art and culture
- Hicklin test stemming from a court case in 1868
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Literature
- L'École des biches, an erotic French work that was first published at Brussels in 1868
- The Songs of Maldoror by Comte de Lautreamont, first canto published
- The Moonstone by Wilkie Collins
- Spiritual Wives London (Lippincott, 1868)
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Visual culture
Lise the bohemian by Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Elihu Vedder
- The Roc's Egg (1868), a scene that could have furnished Ray Harryhausen with inspiration for The Seventh Voyage of Sinbad.
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Births
- Gaston Leroux (1868 - 1927)
- Magnus Hirschfeld (1868-1935)
- Wilhelm Stekel (1868 -1940)
- Paul Otlet (1868–1944), creator of the Universal Decimal Classification
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Deaths
- Menken dies
- Charles Méryon (November 23, 1821-February 13, 1868), was a French etcher.
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