The Education of Henry AdamsCosimo, Inc., 2008 M01 24 - 456 páginas Originally written for close friends and family The Education of Henry Adams was released to the public only after the death of its author, American historian HENRY BROOKS ADAMS (1838-1918), a member of the Adams political family, Harvard professor of medieval history, and a journalist dedicated to exposing corruption. A reflective chronicle of life as a man crossing eras, Adams details how he saw the world around him change from the 19th century to the 20th. The schooling he had as a child left him wholly unprepared for the newer, faster world. The 20th century was dominated by scientific development, and Adams's education had been grounded in classical literature and history-areas that, he believed, offered no real advantages to modern man. Readers interested in historical periods of transition will find this autobiography a moving and thoughtful way to access the stresses and fears of those who lived through the last great societal shift. |
Contenido
ECCENTRICITY 1863 | 169 |
THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY 1864 | 182 |
DILETTANTISM 18651866 | 194 |
DARWINISM 18671868 | 208 |
THE PRESS 1868 | 220 |
PRESIDENT GRANT 1869 | 235 |
FREE FIGHT 18691870 | 247 |
CHAOS 1870 | 261 |
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DIPLOMACY 1861 | 107 |
FOES OR FRIENDS 1862 | 123 |
POLITICAL MORALITY 1862 | 138 |
THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS 1863 | 158 |
FAILURE 1871 | 274 |
TWENTY YEARS AFTER 1892 | 287 |
CHICAGO 1893 | 302 |
SILENCE 18941898 | 315 |
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Términos y frases comunes
Adams never Adams's admitted afterwards American amusing asked became better Boston Bostonian chance chaos Charles Charles Francis Adams Charles Sumner charm Christian anarchist Church Clarence King diplomatic doubt eccentricity eighteenth century energy England English Europe Evarts father felt force friends German Gladstone Government Grant habit Harvard College Hay's Henry Adams historian House idea ignorance inertia instinct interest John John La Farge Karl Pearson knew learned Legation less lesson London looked Lord Lord Palmerston matter meant Milnes mind Minister Adams moral Mount Vernon nature needed offered one's Palmerston Paris party perhaps political President private secretary Pteraspis Quincy reason rebel Russell Russia seemed Senator sense Seward social society stood Street student Sumner talk taste taught thought took Trent Affair unity universe wanted Washington whole woman young Adams
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Página 5 - As he grew accustomed to the great gallery of machines, he began to feel the forty-foot dynamos as a moral force, much as the early Christians felt the Cross.
Página 39 - Were half the power that fills the world with terror, Were half the wealth bestowed on camps and courts, Given to redeem the human mind from error, There were no need of arsenals or forts: The warrior's name would be a name abhorred!
Página 90 - It was at Rome, on the 15th of October 1764, as I sat musing amidst the ruins of the Capitol, while the barefooted friars were singing vespers in the temple of Jupiter,* that the idea of writing the decline and fall of the city first started to my mind.
Página 245 - Grant fretted and irritated him, like the / Terebratula, as a defiance of first principles. He had no right to ; exist. He should have been extinct for ages. The idea that, as society grew older, it grew one-sided, upset evolution, and made of education a fraud. That, two thousand years after Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar, a man like Grant should be called — and should actually and truly be — the highest product of the most advanced evolution, made evolution ludicrous. One must be as...
Página 347 - ... society could lead no further, while the mere sequence of time was artificial and the sequence of thought was chaos, he turned at last to the sequence of force; and thus it happened that after ten years...
Página 142 - It appears difficult to make out a stronger case of infringement of the foreign enlistment act, which, if not enforced on this occasion, is little better than a dead letter.
Página 387 - I should (said he) Bestow this jewel also on my creature, He would adore my gifts instead of me, And rest in Nature, not the God of Nature : So both should losers be. Yet let him keep the rest, But keep them with repining restlessness : Let him be rich and weary, that at least, If goodness lead him not, yet weariness May toss him to my breast.
Página 18 - The bearing of the two seasons on the 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, with growing emphasis to the last year of study. From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double.
Página 20 - From cradle to grave this problem of running order through chaos, direction through space, discipline through freedom, unity through multiplicity, has always been, and must always be, the task of education, as it is the moral of religion, philosophy, science, art, politics, and economy...
Página 209 - Neither he nor any one else knew enough to verify them; in his ignorance of mathematics, he was particularly helpless; but this never stood in his way. The ideas were new and seemed to lead somewhere — to some great generalization which would finish one's clamor to be educated. That a beginner should understand them all, or believe them all, no one could expect, still less exact. Henry Adams was Darwinist because it was easier than not, for his ignorance exceeded belief, ' and one must know something...
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Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society James W. Carey Sin vista previa disponible - 2009 |
The Handbook of Social Psychology: Special fields and applications Gardner Lindzey,Elliot Aronson Vista de fragmentos - 1985 |