The Education of Henry AdamsCosimo, Inc., 2008-01-24 - 456 psl. Originally written for close friends and family The Education of Henry Adams was released to the public only after the death of its author, American historian HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (1838-1918), a member of the Adams political family, Harvard professor of medieval history, and a journalist dedicated to exposing corruption. A reflective chronicle of life as a man crossing eras, Adams details how he saw the world around him change from the 19th century to the 20th. The schooling he had as a child left him wholly unprepared for the newer, faster world. The 20th century was dominated by scientific development, and Adams's education had been grounded in classical literature and history-areas that, he believed, offered no real advantages to modern man. Readers interested in historical periods of transition will find this autobiography a moving and thoughtful way to access the stresses and fears of those who lived through the last great societal shift. |
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HARVARD COLLEGE 18541858 | 57 |
BERLIN 18581859 | 71 |
ROME 18591860 | 82 |
ECCENTRICITY 1863 | 169 |
THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY 1864 | 182 |
DILETTANTISM 18651866 | 194 |
DARWINISM 18671868 | 208 |
THE PRESS 1868 | 220 |
PRESIDENT GRANT 1869 | 235 |
FREE FIGHT 18691870 | 247 |
CHAOS 1870 | 261 |
TREASON 18601861 | 96 |
DIPLOMACY 1861 | 107 |
FOES OR FRIENDS 1862 | 123 |
POLITICAL MORALITY 1862 | 138 |
THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS 1863 | 158 |
FAILURE 1871 | 274 |
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 1892 | 287 |
CHICAGO 1893 | 302 |
SILENCE 18941898 | 315 |
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Adams never Adams's admitted afterwards American amusing asked became better Boston Bostonian chance chaos Charles Charles Francis Adams Charles Sumner charm Christian anarchist Church Clarence King diplomatic doubt eccentricity eighteenth century energy England English Europe Evarts father felt force friends German Gladstone Government Grant habit Harvard College Hay's Henry Adams historian House idea ignorance inertia instinct interest John John La Farge Karl Pearson knew learned Legation less lesson London looked Lord Lord Palmerston matter meant Milnes mind Minister Adams moral Mount Vernon nature needed offered one's Palmerston Paris party perhaps political President private secretary Pteraspis Quincy reason rebel Russell Russia seemed Senator sense Seward social society stood Street student Sumner talk taste taught thought took Trent Affair unity universe wanted Washington whole woman young Adams
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5 psl. - As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.
39 psl. - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
18 psl. - The bearing of the two seasons on the education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing, warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites, with growing emphasis to the last year of study. From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double.
20 psl. - From 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, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy...