The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography

By Adams, Henry

Book Id: WPLBN0000167223
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Title:	The Education of Henry Adams : An Autobiography
Author:	Adams, Henry
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Language:	English
Subject:	Literature, Literature & thought, Writing.
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Publisher:	World Ebook Library


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Excerpt
Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion from a fixed point. Psychology helped here by suggesting a unit — the point of history when man held the highest idea of himself as a unit in a unified universe. Eight or ten years of study had led Adams to think he might use the century 1150-1250, expressed in Amiens Cathedral and the Works of Thomas Aquinas, as the unit from which he might measure motion down to his own time, without assuming anything as true or untrue, except relation. The movement might be studied at once in philosophy and mechanics. Setting himself to the task, he began a volume which he mentally knew as 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.' From that point he proposed to fix a position for himself, which he could label: 'The Education of Henry Adams: a Study of Twentieth-Century Multiplicity.' With the help of these two points of relation, he hoped to project his lines forward and backward indefinitely, subject to correction from any one who should know better....

Table of Contents
· PREFACE THE EDUCATION · CHAPTER I. QUINCY (1838-1848) · CHAPTER II. BOSTON (1848-1854) · CHAPTER III. WASHINGTON (1850-1854) · CHAPTER IV. HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858) · CHAPTER V. BERLIN (1858-1859) · CHAPTER VI. ROME (1859-1860) · CHAPTER VII. TREASON (1860-1861) · CHAPTER VIII. DIPLOMACY (1861) · CHAPTER IX. FOES OR FRIENDS (1862) · CHAPTER X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862) · CHAPTER XI. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) · CHAPTER XII. ECCENTRICITY (1863) · CHAPTER XIII. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864) · CHAPTER XIV. DILETTANTISM (1865-1866) · CHAPTER XV. DARWINISM (1867-1868) · CHAPTER XVI. THE PRESS (1868) · CHAPTER XVII. PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) · CHAPTER XVIII. FREE FIGHT (1869-1870) · CHAPTER XIX. CHAOS (1870) · CHAPTER XX. FAILURE (1871) · CHAPTER XXI. TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1892) · CHAPTER XXII. CHICAGO (1893) · CHAPTER XXIII. SILENCE (1894-1898) · CHAPTER XXIV. INDIAN SUMMER (1898-1899) · CHAPTER XXV. THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900) · CHAPTER XXVI. TWILIGHT (1901) · CHAPTER XXVII. TEUFELSDRÖCKH (1901) · CHAPTER XXVIII. THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902) · CHAPTER XXIX. THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902) · CHAPTER XXX. VIS INERTIAE (1903) · CHAPTER XXXI. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903) · CHAPTER XXXII. VIS NOVA (1903-1904) · CHAPTER XXXIII. A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904) · CHAPTER XXXIV. A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904) · CHAPTER XXXV. NUNC AGE (1905)