The education of Henry Adams ; an autobiography.
Henry Adams (great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams) asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and technology. This autobiography provides an insightful exploration of the tumultuous...
| Uniform Title: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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| Language: | English |
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin Co.,
1918.
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| Series: | Jack and Susan Davis Rare Book Collection.
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MSU: Copy 5 gift of Jack and Susan Davis. |
| Physical Description: | x, 519 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 25 cm |
| Format: | Book |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The education of Henry Adams ; |b an autobiography. |
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| 500 | |a Includes index. | ||
| 500 | |a "This volume, written in 1905, as a sequel to the same author's 'Mont-Saint Michel and Chartres,' was privately printed ... in 1906 ... The Massachusetts historical society now publishes the 'Education' as it was printed in 1907, with only such marginal corrections as the author made."--Editor's pref., signed: Henry Cabot Lodge. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Editor's preface / Henry Cabot Lodge -- Quincy (1838-1848) -- Boston (1848-1854) -- Washington (1850-1854) -- Harvard College (1854-1858) -- Berlin (1858-1859) -- Rome (1859-1860) -- Treason (1860-1861) -- Diplomacy (1861) -- Foes or friends (1862) -- Political morality (1862) -- The battle of the rams (1863) -- Eccentricity (1863) -- The perfection of human society (1864) -- Dilettantism (1865-1866) -- Darwinism (1867-1868) -- The press (1868) -- President Grant (1869) -- Free fight (1869-1870) -- Chaos (1870) -- Failure (1871) -- Twenty years after (1892) -- Chicago (1893) -- Silence (1894-1898) -- Indian summer (1898-1899) -- The dynamo and the virgin (1900) -- Twilight (1901) -- Teufelsdroc̈kh (1901) -- The height of knowledge (1902) -- The abyss of ignorance (1902) -- Vis inertiae (1903) -- The grammar of science (1903) -- Vis nova (1903-1904) -- A dynamic theory of history (1904) -- A law of acceleration (1904) -- Nunc age (1905). | |
| 520 | |a Henry Adams (great-grandson of John Adams and grandson of John Quincy Adams) asserts that his conventional education was defective because it did not prepare him to live in a world transformed by the new science and technology. This autobiography provides an insightful exploration of the tumultuous age in which he lived. | ||
| 590 | |a MSU: Copy 5 gift of Jack and Susan Davis. | ||
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