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From Quotes by Henry Adams
- The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
- Thank God, I never was cheerful. I come from the happy stock of the Mathers, who, as you remember, passed sweet mornings reflecting on the…
- The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of force. For the…
- I would rather starve and rot and keep the privilege of speaking the truth as I see it, than of holding all the offices that…
- My belief is that science is to wreck us, and that we are like monkeys monkeying with a loaded shell; we don't in the least…
- Every syllable that can be struck out is pure profit, and every page that can be economised is a five-per-cent dividend. Nature rebels against this…
- As for piracy, I love to be pirated. It is the greatest compliment an author can have. The wholesale piracy of Democracy was the single…
- Probably the institution of marriage had its origin in love of property. Both men and women were united in this--that whatever they loved best, they…
- Wild as man was, and disgusting as the more degraded tribes and communities were, the best of them, and all those from which further advance…
- As a means of variation from a normal type, sickness in childhood ought to have a certain value not to be classed under any fitness…
- Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion, from a fixed point.
- From earliest childhood the boy was accustomed to feel that, for him, life was double. Winter and summer, town and country, law and liberty, were…
- Throughout human history the waste of mind has been appalling, and, as this story is meant to show, society has conspired to promote it. No…
- 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…
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