By the end of the last century, Americans had embraced the idea of the right to free public education for all children.上个世纪末，美国人都接受了所有儿童都有权接受免费公共教育的观点。The sculpture was badly mutilated in the late eighteenth century.雕像在十八世纪末遭到严重破坏。When the book appeared just before the end of the century, it almost split the feminist movement.当此书在世纪末问世时，它几乎使女权运动产生分裂。