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The 20th Century Literature I. Background information 1. the crisis of faith 1) Charles Darwin (British naturalist): the publication of The Origin of Species (1850) 2) Friedrich Nietzsche (German philosopher): his declaration of the death of God 3) Bertrand Russell (British philosopher mathematician): A Free Man’s Worship (1918) 2. many manifestations of a weakening of traditional stabilities 1) the aesthetic movement 2) the rise of pessimism 3. the influence of psychology, anthropology and philosophy 1) James Frazer (British anthropologist): The Golden Bough (1911