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\u201cA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)* Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 300; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531588755-96303790-852e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Autobiographical essay, Chapter XX, \u2018Failure (1871)\u2019 Note that in the 1800s, the word \u2018faggot\u2019 was a common term for a stick of wood.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cA teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.<\/span> A teacher is expected to teach truth, and may perhaps flatter himself that he does so, if he stops with the alphabet or the multiplication table, as a mother teaches truth by making her child eat with a spoon; but morals are quite another truth and philosophy is more complex still. A teacher must either treat history as a catalogue, a record, a romance, or as an evolution; and whether he affirms or denies evolution, he falls into all the burning faggots of the pit. He makes of his scholars either priests or atheists, plutocrats or socialists, judges or anarchists, almost in spite of himself.\u201d (pp. 300-301)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531589797-29580b31-8c50094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA300&dq=A+teacher+affects+eternity<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315829087-ce67c619-0fbc2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cAll experience is an arch, to build upon.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 87; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span><\/strong>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315829475-7c82a017-1e622684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Autobiographical essay, Chapter VI, \u2018Rome (1859-1860)\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cAll experience is an arch, to build upon<\/span>. Yet Adams admitted himself unable to guess what use his second winter in Germany was to him, or what he expected it to be. Even the doctrine of accidental education broke down.\u201d (p. 87)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315829682-63e8fade-cf4c2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA87&dq=All+experience+is+an+arch+The+Education+of+Henry+Adams<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cAs for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it\u2019s a bore.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

Letter to friend Charles Milnes Gaskell (17 December 1908) in\u00a0Letters of Henry Adams 1892-1918<\/em>, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., p. 514; online via Universal Digital Library & Internet Archive, www.archive.org<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Letter] \u201cEveryone is so damnably kind and forbearing, that there is absolutely no justification for discontent. As for America, it is the ideal fruit of all your youthful hopes and reforms. Everybody is fairly decent, respectable, domestic, bourgeois, middle-class and tiresome. There is absolutely nothing to revile except that it\u2019s a bore.<\/span> Enfin! <\/em>we made it so.\u201d (p. 514)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: Letters of Henry Adams<\/em> 1892-1918 (1932) online via Internet Archive: https:\/\/archive.org\/stream\/lettersofhenryad008807mbp#page\/n531\/mode\/2up\/search\/bourgeois<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”left-to-right”]\n

\u201cC<\/strong>haos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)* Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 451; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Autobiographical essay – Chapter XXXI, \u2018The Grammar of Science (1903)\u2019]\n

\u201cThe kinetic theory of gas is an assertion of ultimate chaos. In plain words, Chaos was the law of nature; Order was the dream of man.<\/span>\u201d (p. 451)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA451&dq=In+plain+words,+Chaos+was+the+law+of+nature<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cE<\/strong>ducation should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 314; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XXI, \u2018Twenty Years After (1892)\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cNo doubt the world at large will always lag so far behind the active mind as to make a soft cushion of inertia to drop upon, as it did for Henry Adams; but education should try to lessen the obstacles, diminish the friction, invigorate the energy, and should train minds to react, not at haphazard, but by choice, on the lines of force that attract their world.<\/span> What one knows is, in youth, of little moment; they know enough who know how to learn.\u201d (p. 314)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA314&dq=education+should+try+to+lessen+the+obstacles,+diminish+the+friction<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cEvery one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 182; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XII ‘Eccentricity (1863)’]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThese questions of taste, of feeling, of inheritance, need no settlement. Every one carries his own inch-rule of taste, and amuses himself by applying it, triumphantly, wherever he travels.<\/span> Whatever others thought, the cleverest Englishman held that national eccentricity needed correction, and were beginning to correct it.\u201d (p. 182)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA182&dq=Every+one+carries+his+own+inch-rule+of+taste<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cFriendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 312; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XX, \u2018Failure (1871)\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cA new friend is always a miracle, but at thirty-three years old, such a bird of paradise rising in the sage-brush was an avatar. One friend in a lifetime is much; two are many; three are hardly possible. Friendship needs a certain parallelism of life, a community of thought, a rivalry of aim.<\/span>\u201d (p. 312)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books:: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA312&dq=Friendship+needs+a+certain+parallelism+of+life<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cFrom cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 12; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter I \u2018Quincy (1838-1848)\u2019]: <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education<\/span>, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy; but a boy\u2019s will is his life, and he dies when it is broken, as the colt dies in harness, taking a new nature in becoming tame. Rarely has the boy felt kindly towards his tamers. (p. 12)<\/span>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>: The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books:: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA12&dq=has+always+been,+and+must+always+be,+the+task+of+education<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cI firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

Letter to his brother Charles Francis Adams, Jr. (11 April 1862) in A Cycle of Adams Letters: 1861-1865<\/em>, ed. Worthington Chauncey Ford, Vol. I, Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1920, p. 135; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Letter to Adams\u2019 brother Charles Francis Adams, Jr.]:<\/p>\n

\u201cYou may think all this nonsense, but I tell you these are great times. Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of man. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control.<\/span> Some day science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide by blowing up the world.\u201d (p. 135)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/em><\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0A Cycle of Adams Letters: 1861-1865 <\/em>(1920) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=qjxaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA135&dq=I+firmly+believe+that+before+many+centuries+more\u00a0<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1449531591105-7edf5f39-feaa094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 180; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XII, ‘Eccentricity (1863)’]:<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowledge of human nature is the beginning and end of political education,<\/span> but several years of arduous study in the neighborhood of Westminster led Henry Adams to think that knowledge of English human nature had little or no value outside of England. In Paris, such a habit stood in one\u2019s way; in America, it roused all the instincts of native jealousy.\u201d (p. 180)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Source link<\/strong><\/span>:\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918 Houghton Mifflin edition) online via Google Books: https:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=-ThaAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA180&dq=Knowledge+of+human+nature+is+the+beginning<\/a>[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][\/vc_tta_tabs][\/vc_column][\/vc_row][vc_row css=”.vc_custom_1453316221301{margin-top: 0px !important;border-top-width: 0px !important;padding-top: 0px !important;}”][vc_column width=”1\/2″][vc_tta_tabs style=”modern” shape=”square” active_section=”1″][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-book” add_icon=”true” title=”Citation” tab_id=”1453315828001-b5e2e52e-ea1e2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

\u201cPolitics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 7; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter I, \u2018Quincy (1838-1848)\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cPolitics, as a practice, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds<\/span>, and Massachusetts politics had been as harsh as the climate.\u201d (p. 7)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cS<\/strong>implicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 441; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em><\/strong>:\u00a0 Although Adams had copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt <\/em><\/strong>[Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XXX \u2018Vis Inertiae (1903).’ Ellipsis – Repeat Right]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe dictionary said that inertia was a property of matter, by which matter tends, when at rest, to remain so, and, when in motion, to move on in a straight line. Finding that his mind refused to imagine itself at rest or in a straight line, he was forced, as usual, to let it imagine something else; and since the question concerned the mind, and not matter, he decided from personal experience that his mind was never at rest, but moved \u2013 when normal \u2013 about something it called a motive, and never moved without motives to move it.\u2026This seemed simple as running water; but simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.<\/span>\u201d (p. 441)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cThe effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim\u2019s sympathies.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 147; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1453315828385-86abfac4-79bf2684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong>: [Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter X, ‘Political Morality (1862)’]\n

\u201cThe effect of power and publicity on all men is the aggravation of self, a sort of tumor that ends by killing the victim\u2019s sympathies<\/span>; a diseased appetite, like a passion for drink or perverted tastes; one can scarcely use expressions too strong to describe the violence of egotism it stimulates; and Thurlow Weed was one of the exceptions; a rare immune.\u201d (p. 147)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1453315828572-dac97b48-68e02684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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\u201cThe woman who is known only through a man is known wrong.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

~Henry Adams<\/strong>, American author & historian<\/p>\n

The Education of Henry Adams<\/em> (1918)*<\/span> Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1918 edition, p. 353; online via Google Books, books.google.com<\/a><\/p>\n

*<\/span>Source note<\/em>:\u00a0 Although Adams had copied a few private editions of\u00a0The Education of Henry Adams<\/em>\u00a0by 1907, the book was not published commercially until 1918.<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-plus-circle” add_icon=”true” title=”Context” tab_id=”1449531591631-43861bc7-da28094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]Extended excerpt<\/em><\/strong> [Autobiography, written in the third person – Chapter XXIII, \u2018Silence (1894-1898)\u2019]:<\/p>\n

\u201cThe woman who is known only through a man is known wrong<\/span>, and excepting one or two like Mme. De Sevigne, no woman has pictured herself. The American woman of the nineteenth century will live only as the man saw her; probably she will be less known than the woman of the eighteenth; none of the female descendants of Abigail Adams can ever be nearly so familiar as her letters have made her; and all this is pure loss to history, for the American woman of the nineteenth century was much better company than the American man; she was probably much better company than her grandmothers. (p. 353)[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_tta_section][vc_tta_section i_icon_fontawesome=”fa fa-search” add_icon=”true” title=”Source Link” tab_id=”1449531592891-f39e055b-a66e094f-cf632684-5759″][vc_column_text css_animation=”none”]\n

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