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| so:description | Chapter XXI Twenty Years After (en) |
| so:description | Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XVIII Free Fight (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
| so:description | Chapter V Berlin (en) |
| so:isPartOf | https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Henry_Adams |
| so:description | Chapter XIX Chaos (en) |
| so:description | The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VI Rome (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
| so:description | Chapter III Washington (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
| so:description | Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
| so:description | Chapter II Boston (en) |
| so:description | Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
| so:description | Chapter I Quincy (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
| so:text | ...the American people seemed to have no clearer idea than they. Indeed, the American people had no idea at all; they were wandering in a wilderness much more sandy than the Hebrews had ever trodden about Sinai; they had neither serpents nor golden calves to worship. They had lost the sense of worship; for the idea that they worshipped money seemed a delusion. Worship of money was an old-world trait; a healthy appetite akin to worship of the Gods, or to worship of power in any concrete shape; but the American wasted money more recklessly than any one ever did before; he spent more to less purpose than any extravagant court aristocracy; he had no sense of relative values, and knew not what to do with his money when he got it (en) |
| so:description | Chapter XX Failure (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VII Treason (en) |
| so:description | ;Preface (en) |
| so:description | Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
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