the education of henry adams by henry adams

The scheme became unmanageable as he approached his end. While he, like a small one, had to reverse the method and work back from unity Augustine, like a great artist, had worked from multiplicity to unity, That his great ambition was to complete St. Probably he saw it in advance, for he used to say, half in jest, Himself, and could get no light from readers or friends, was the usual one of

The point on which the author failed to please The 'Chartres' was finished and privately printed in 1904.

Indefinitely, subject to correction from any one who should know better.' Points of relation, he hoped to project his lines forward and backward Task, he began a volume which he mentally knew as 'Mont-Saint-Michel andĬhartres: a Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.' From that point he proposed toįix a position for himself, which he could label: 'The Education of HenryĪdams: a Study of Twentieth-Century Multiplicity.' With the help of these two Might be studied at once in philosophy and mechanics. Without assuming anything as true or untrue, except relation. Eight or ten years of study had led Adams to think he might use theĬentury 1150-1250, expressed in Amiens Cathedral and the Works of ThomasĪquinas, as the unit from which he might measure motion down to his own time, History when man held the highest idea of himself as a unit in a unified Psychology helped here by suggesting a unit - the point of 'Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion fromĪ fixed point. The idea of the two books was thus explained Of one hundred copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons interested, for theirĪssent, correction, or suggestion. THIS volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the sameĪuthor's 'Mont Saint Michel and Chartres,' was privately printed, to the number A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904) CHAPTER XXXV. A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904) CHAPTER XXXIV. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903) CHAPTER XXXII. THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902) CHAPTER XXX. THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902) CHAPTER XXIX. THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900) CHAPTER XXVI. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864) CHAPTER XIV. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) CHAPTER XII. THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS Henry Adams PREFACE THE EDUCATION CHAPTER I. BROWSE the site for other works by this author

The education of henry adams by henry adams