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Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
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Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
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Chapter III Washington (en) |
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Chapter XVIII Free Fight (en) |
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Chapter XX Failure (en) |
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Chapter XIX Chaos (en) |
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Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
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Chapter I Quincy (en) |
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Chapter VII Treason (en) |
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Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
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Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
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The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
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Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
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;Preface (en) |
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Chapter XXIII Silence (en) |
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Chapter XXVI Twilight (en) |
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Chapter II Boston (en) |
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Chapter XXI Twenty Years After (en) |
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The work of domestic progress is done by masses of mechanical power — steam, electric, furnace, or other — which have to be controlled by a score or two of individuals who have shown capacity to manage it. The work of internal government has become the task of controlling these men, who are socially as remote as heathen gods, alone worth knowing, but never known, and who could tell nothing of political value if one skinned them alive. Most of them have nothing to tell, but are forces as dumb as their dynamos, absorbed in the development or economy of power. They are trustees for the public, and whenever society assumes the property, it must confer on them that title; but the power will remain as before, whoever manages it, and will then control society without appeal, as it controls its stokers and pit-men. Modern politics is, at bottom, a struggle not of men but of forces. The men become every year more and more creatures of force, massed about central power-houses. The conflict is no longer between the men, but between the motors that drive the men, and the men tend to succumb to their own motive forces. (en) |
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Chapter XXIV Indian Summer (en) |
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Chapter XXVII Teufelsdröckh (en) |
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Chapter XXV The Dynamo and the Virgin (en) |
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Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
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Chapter XXVIII The Height of Knowledge (en) |
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Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
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Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
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https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams
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Chapter XXII Chicago (en) |
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Chapter VI Rome (en) |
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Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
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Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
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Chapter V Berlin (en) |
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