{"product_id":"2940013417977","title":"The Education of Henry Adams","description":"THE EDUCATION OF HENRY ADAMS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e        CONTENTS\u003cbr\u003e        EDITOR'S PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e        PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e     I. QUINCY (1838-1848)\u003cbr\u003e    II. BOSTON (1848-1854)\u003cbr\u003e   III. WASHINGTON (1850-1854)\u003cbr\u003e    IV. HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858)\u003cbr\u003e     V. BERLIN (1858-1859)\u003cbr\u003e    VI. ROME (1859-1860)\u003cbr\u003e   VII. TREASON (1860-1861)\u003cbr\u003e  VIII. DIPLOMACY (1861)\u003cbr\u003e    IX. FOES OR FRIENDS (1862)\u003cbr\u003e     X. POLITICAL MORALITY (1862)\u003cbr\u003e    XI. THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863)\u003cbr\u003e   XII. ECCENTRICITY (1863)\u003cbr\u003e  XIII. THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864)\u003cbr\u003e   XIV. DILETTANTISM (1865-1866)\u003cbr\u003e    XV. DARWINISM (1867-1868)\u003cbr\u003e   XVI. THE PRESS (1868)\u003cbr\u003e  XVII. PRESIDENT GRANT (1869)\u003cbr\u003e XVIII. FREE FIGHT (1869-1870)\u003cbr\u003e   XIX. CHAOS (1870)\u003cbr\u003e    XX. FAILURE (1871)\u003cbr\u003e   XXI. TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1892)\u003cbr\u003e  XXII. CHICAGO (1893)\u003cbr\u003e XXIII. SILENCE (1894-1898)\u003cbr\u003e  XXIV. INDIAN SUMMER (1898-1899)\u003cbr\u003e   XXV. THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900)\u003cbr\u003e  XXVI. TWILIGHT (1901)\u003cbr\u003e XXVII. TEUFELSDROCKH (1901)\u003cbr\u003eXXVIII. THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902)\u003cbr\u003e  XXIX. THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902)\u003cbr\u003e   XXX. VIS INERTIAE (1903)\u003cbr\u003e  XXXI. THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903)\u003cbr\u003e XXXII. VIS NOVA (1903-1904)\u003cbr\u003eXXXIII. A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904)\u003cbr\u003e XXXIV. A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904)\u003cbr\u003e  XXXV. NUNC AGE (1905)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eEDITOR'S PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  THIS volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the same author's\u003cbr\u003e\"Mont Saint Michel and Chartres,\" was privately printed, to the\u003cbr\u003enumber of one hundred copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons\u003cbr\u003einterested, for their assent, correction, or suggestion. The idea\u003cbr\u003eof the two books was thus explained at the end of Chapter XXIX:\u003cbr\u003e--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \"Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured\u003cbr\u003eby motion from a fixed point. Psychology helped here by\u003cbr\u003esuggesting a unit -- the point of history when man held the\u003cbr\u003ehighest idea of himself as a unit in a unified universe. Eight or\u003cbr\u003eten years of study had led Adams to think he might use the\u003cbr\u003ecentury 1150-1250, expressed in Amiens Cathedral and the Works of\u003cbr\u003eThomas Aquinas, as the unit from which he might measure motion\u003cbr\u003edown to his own time, without assuming anything as true or\u003cbr\u003euntrue, except relation. The movement might be studied at once in\u003cbr\u003ephilosophy and mechanics. Setting himself to the task, he began a\u003cbr\u003evolume which he mentally knew as 'Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres:\u003cbr\u003ea Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.' From that point he proposed\u003cbr\u003eto fix a position for himself, which he could label: 'The\u003cbr\u003eEducation of Henry Adams: a Study of Twentieth-Century\u003cbr\u003eMultiplicity.' With the help of these two points of relation, he\u003cbr\u003ehoped to project his lines forward and backward indefinitely,\u003cbr\u003esubject to correction from any one who should know better.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The \"Chartres\" was finished and privately printed in 1904. The\u003cbr\u003e\"Education\" proved to be more difficult. The point on which the\u003cbr\u003eauthor failed to please himself, and could get no light from\u003cbr\u003ereaders or friends, was the usual one of literary form. Probably\u003cbr\u003ehe saw it in advance, for he used to say, half in jest, that his\u003cbr\u003egreat ambition was to complete St. Augustine's \"Confessions,\" but\u003cbr\u003ethat St. Augustine, like a great artist, had worked from\u003cbr\u003emultiplicity to unity, while he, like a small one, had to reverse\u003cbr\u003ethe method and work back from unity to multiplicity. The scheme\u003cbr\u003ebecame unmanageable as he approached his end.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  Probably he was, in fact, trying only to work into it his\u003cbr\u003efavorite theory of history, which now fills the last three or\u003cbr\u003efour chapters of the \"Education,\" and he could not satisfy\u003cbr\u003ehimself with his workmanship. At all events, he was still\u003cbr\u003epondering over the problem in 1910, when he tried to deal with it\u003cbr\u003ein another way which might be more intelligible to students. He\u003cbr\u003eprinted a small volume called \"A Letter to American Teachers,\"\u003cbr\u003ewhich he sent to his associates in the American Historical\u003cbr\u003eAssociation, hoping to provoke some response. Before he could\u003cbr\u003esatisfy himself even on this minor point, a severe illness in the\u003cbr\u003espring of 1912 put an end to his literary activity forever.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  The matter soon passed beyond his control. In 1913 the\u003cbr\u003eInstitute of Architects published the \"Mont-Saint-Michel and\u003cbr\u003eChartres.\" Already the \"Education\" had become almost as well\u003cbr\u003eknown as the \"Chartres,\" and was freely quoted by every book\u003cbr\u003ewhose author requested it. The author could no longer withdraw\u003cbr\u003eeither volume; he could no longer rewrite either, and he could\u003cbr\u003enot publish that which he thought unprepared and unfinished,\u003cbr\u003ealthough in his opinion the other was historically purposeless\u003cbr\u003ewithout its sequel. In the end, he preferred to leave the\u003cbr\u003e\"Education\" unpublished, avowedly incomplete, trusting that it\u003cbr\u003emight quietly fade from memory. 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