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Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
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As he lay on Wenlock Edge, with the sheep nibbling the grass close about him as they or their betters had nibbled the grass — or whatever there was to nibble — in the Silurian kingdom of Pteraspis, he seemed to have fallen on an evolution far more wonderful than that of fishes. He did not like it; he could not account for it; and he determined to stop it. Never since the days of his Limulus ancestry had any of his ascendants thought thus. Their modes of thought might be many, but their thought was one. Out of his millions of millions of ancestors, back to the Cambrian mollusks, every one had probably lived and died in the illusion of Truths which did not amuse him, and which had never changed. Henry Adams was the first in an infinite series to discover and admit to himself that he really did not care whether truth was, or was not, true. He did not even care that it should be proved true, unless the process were new and amusing. He was a Darwinian for fun.
From the beginning of history, this attitude had been branded as criminal — worse than crime — sacrilege! Society punished it ferociously and justly, in self-defence. (en) |
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Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
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Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
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Chapter III Washington (en) |
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Chapter V Berlin (en) |
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Chapter VII Treason (en) |
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Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
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;Preface (en) |
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Chapter II Boston (en) |
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Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
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Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams
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Chapter I Quincy (en) |
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Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
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Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
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Chapter VI Rome (en) |
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Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
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The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
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