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Chapter XXV The Dynamo and the Virgin (en) |
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Chapter II Boston (en) |
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Chapter XXVI Twilight (en) |
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Chapter XXVII Teufelsdröckh (en) |
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Chapter XXII Chicago (en) |
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Chapter XXIV Indian Summer (en) |
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Chapter XVI The Press (en) |
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Chapter I Quincy (en) |
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;Preface (en) |
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Chapter XX Failure (en) |
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Chapter XIV Dilettantism (en) |
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Chapter X Political Morality (en) |
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The Education of Henry Adams (1907) (en) |
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Chapter XVIII Free Fight (en) |
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As a type for study, or a standard for education, Lodge was the more interesting of the two. Roosevelts are born and never can be taught; but Lodge was a creature of teaching — Boston incarnate — the child of his local parentage; and while his ambition led him to be more, the intent, though virtuous, was — as Adams admitted in his own case — restless. An excellent talker, a voracious reader, a ready wit, an accomplished orator, with a clear mind and a powerful memory, he could never feel perfectly at ease whatever leg he stood on, but shifted, sometimes with painful strain of temper, from one sensitive muscle to another, uncertain whether to pose as an uncompromising Yankee; or a pure American; or a patriot in the still purer atmosphere of Irish, Germans, or Jews; or a scholar and historian of Harvard College. English to the last fibre of his thought — saturated with English literature, English tradition, English taste — revolted by every vice and by most virtues of Frenchmen and Germans, or any other Continental standards, but at home and happy among the vices and extravagances of Shakespeare — standing first on the social, then on the political foot; now worshipping, now banning; shocked by the wanton display of immorality, but practicing the license of political usage; sometimes bitter, often genial, always intelligent — Lodge had the singular merit of interesting. The usual statesmen flocked in swarms like crows, black and monotonous. Lodge's plumage was varied, and, like his flight, harked back to race. He betrayed the consciousness that he and his people had a past, if they dared but avow it, and might have a future, if they could but divine it. (en) |
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Chapter XXIII Silence (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 VII Treason (en) |
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Chapter XIX Chaos (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 III Washington (en) |
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Chapter IX Foes or Friends (en) |
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Chapter XVII President Grant (en) |
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Capter IV Harvard College (en) |
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Chapter V Berlin (en) |
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Chapter XXI Twenty Years After (en) |
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Chapter VIII Diplomacy (en) |
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Chapter XII Eccentricity (en) |
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