...was the most decisive force he ever l it ran though life, and made the division between its perplexi warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites,...with growing emphasis to the last year of study. From earliesTchildhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer,...

...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...country, law and liberty, were hostile, and the man whe pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster — that is, a man employed to tell lies...

...bred two separate natures. Winter was always the effort to live; summer was tropical license. . . . Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys." Adams associated winter with the false education of mechanical recitation, summer with the spontaneous...

...bred two separate natures. Winter was always the effort to live; summer was tropical license. . . . Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...man who pretended they were not, was in his eyes a schoolmaster—that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys." Adams associated winter with the...

...ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing, warring, irreconciliable problems, irreducible opposites, with growing emphasis to the last year of study" (9). The view expressed in the initial chapter that "Life was a double thing" runs throughout the text...

...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys. The apocalyptic image of the Dynamo and the Virgin is the ultimate expression of the tragic doubleness...

...education of Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made the division between its perplexing,...warring, irreconcilable problems, irreducible opposites. . . . From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double . . . and...

...and the more forward-looking and commercial nineteenth-century spirit of his mother's Boston family. "From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double," Adams writes: as a result of his continuing loyalty to the Enlightenment moralism of the family tradition,...

...Like all the great modern antinomies — fact and value, illusion and reality, religion and science— "winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty,...that is, a man employed to tell lies to little boys" (Adams, 728-29). So though the child may need to make sense of the "blooming confusion," he is far...

...Henry Adams was no fancy; it was the most decisive force he ever knew; it ran through life, and made division between its perplexing, warring, irreconcilable...accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. . . . The boy inherited his double nature.96 Lears, in fact, argues that while more than most "Adams...