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Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
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Chapter XX Failure (en) |
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Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
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Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
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Chapter II Boston (en) |
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Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
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Chapter XXI Twenty Years After (en) |
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Chapter XV Darwinism (en) |
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;Preface (en) |
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Chapter XXX Vis Inertiae (en) |
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Chapter XI The Battle of the Rams (en) |
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Chapter I Quincy (en) |
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Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
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Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
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Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
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Chapter XXVI Twilight (en) |
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Chapter XVIII Free Fight (en) |
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Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
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Fifty years ago, science took for granted that the rate of acceleration could not last. The world forgets quickly, but even today the habit remains of founding statistics on the faith that consumption will continue nearly stationary. Two generations, with John Stuart Mill, talked of this stationary period, which was to follow the explosion of new power. All the men who were elderly in the forties died in this faith, and other men grew old nursing the same conviction, and happy in it; while science, for fifty years, permitted, or encouraged, society to think that force would prove to be limited in supply. This mental inertia of science lasted through the eighties before showing signs of breaking up; and nothing short of radium fairly wakened men to the fact, long since evident, that force was inexhaustible. (en) |
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Chapter XXXI The Grammar of Science (en) |
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Chapter XXIX The Abyss of Ignorance (en) |
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Chapter XXV The Dynamo and the Virgin (en) |
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Chapter III Washington (en) |
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Chapter XXXII Vis Nova (en) |
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Chapter XXXIII A Dynamic Theory of History (en) |
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Chapter XXXIV A Law of Acceleration (en) |
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Chapter VI Rome (en) |
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Chapter V Berlin (en) |
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Chapter XXIV Indian Summer (en) |
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The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
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Chapter XXVII Teufelsdröckh (en) |
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Chapter XXIII Silence (en) |
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Chapter XIII The Perfection of Human Society (en) |
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Chapter VII Treason (en) |
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Chapter XXII Chicago (en) |
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Chapter XXVIII The Height of Knowledge (en) |
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Chapter XIX Chaos (en) |
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