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THE EDUCATION OF
HENRY ADAMS
Henry Adams
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Contents
PREFACE FROM THE EDITOR .......................................................................................... 1
EDITOR’S PREFACE ......................................................................................................... 3
PREFACE.......................................................................................................................... 7
CHAPTER I QUINCY (1838-1848) ..................................................................................... 9
CHAPTER II BOSTON (1848-1854) ................................................................................. 27
CHAPTER III WASHINGTON (1850-1854)........................................................................ 43
CHAPTER IV HARVARD COLLEGE (1854-1858) ............................................................. 57
CHAPTER V BERLIN (1858-1859)................................................................................... 73
CHAPTER VI ROME (1859-1860) .................................................................................... 85
CHAPTER VII TREASON (1860-1861) ........................................................................... 101
CHAPTER VIII DIPLOMACY (1861) ............................................................................... 113
CHAPTER IX FOES OR FRIENDS (1862)....................................................................... 129
CHAPTER X POLITICAL MORALITY (1862).................................................................... 145
CHAPTER XI THE BATTLE OF THE RAMS (1863) ......................................................... 167
CHAPTER XII ECCENTRICITY (1863)............................................................................ 179
CHAPTER XIII THE PERFECTION OF HUMAN SOCIETY (1864)..................................... 193
CHAPTER XIV DILETTANTISM (1865-1866).................................................................. 207
CHAPTER XV DARWINISM (1867-1868) ....................................................................... 221
CHAPTER XVI THE PRESS (1868) ................................................................................ 233
CHAPTER XVII PRESIDENT GRANT (1869) ................................................................... 249
CHAPTER XVIII FREE FIGHT (1869-1870).................................................................... 261
CHAPTER XIX CHAOS (1870) ....................................................................................... 275
CHAPTER XX FAILURE (1871) ..................................................................................... 289
CHAPTER XXI TWENTY YEARS AFTER (1892) .............................................................. 303
CHAPTER XXII CHICAGO (1893) .................................................................................. 319
CHAPTER XXIII SILENCE (1894-1898) ......................................................................... 333
CHAPTER XXIV INDIAN SUMMER (1898-1899) ............................................................ 349
CHAPTER XXV THE DYNAMO AND THE VIRGIN (1900)................................................ 365
CHAPTER XXVI TWILIGHT (1901) ................................................................................ 377
CHAPTER XXVII TEUFELSDROCKH (1901) .................................................................. 389
CHAPTER XXVIII THE HEIGHT OF KNOWLEDGE (1902) .............................................. 403
CHAPTER XXIX THE ABYSS OF IGNORANCE (1902) .................................................... 413
iv
CHAPTER XXX VIS INERTIAE (1903)............................................................................ 423
CHAPTER XXXI THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903)................................................... 435
CHAPTER XXXII VIS NOVA (1903-1904)....................................................................... 447
CHAPTER XXXIII A DYNAMIC THEORY OF HISTORY (1904) ......................................... 459
CHAPTER XXXIV A LAW OF ACCELERATION (1904) .................................................... 473
CHAPTER XXXV NUNC AGE (1905) .............................................................................. 483
GLOSSARY ................................................................................................................... 489
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EDITOR’S %PREFACE
THIS volume, written in 1905 as a sequel to the same author’s “Mont Saint
Michel and Chartres,” was privately printed, to the number of one hundred
copies, in 1906, and sent to the persons interested, for their assent, correction, or
suggestion. The idea of the two books was thus explained at the end of Chapter
XXIX:—
“Any schoolboy could see that man as a force must be measured by motion
from a fixed point. Psychology helped here by suggesting a unit—the point of
history when man held the highest idea of himself as a unit in a unified universe.
Eight or ten years of study had led Adams to think he might use the century
1150-1250, expressed in Amiens Cathedral and the Works of Thomas Aquinas, as
the unit from which he might measure motion down to his own time, without
assuming anything as true or untrue, except relation. The movement might be
studied at once in philosophy and mechanics. Setting himself to the task, he
began a volume which he mentally knew as ‘Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: a
Study of Thirteenth-Century Unity.’ From that point he proposed to fix a
position for himself, which he could label: ‘The Education of Henry Adams: a
Study of Twentieth-Century Multiplicity.’ With the help of these two points of
relation, he hoped to project his lines forward and backward indefinitely,
subject to correction from any one who should know better.”
Thesaurus
assent: (n) acceptance, acquiescence, developing, advanced, confident, sequel: (n) sequence, result, issue,
approval, agreement, compliance, brilliant, bold. aftermath, continuation, continuance,
admission, approbation; (v) accede, indefinitely: (adv) indistinctly, outcome, consequence, ending,
accord, agree; (adj, v) acquiesce. indeterminately, unclearly, upshot, outgrowth. ANTONYM: (n)
ANTONYMS: (v) resist, disagree, uncertainly, undefinedly, unfixedly, prelude.
disapprove, reject, refuse; (n) loosely, imprecisely, undeterminedly, untrue: (adj) erroneous, unfaithful,
disagreement, refusal, resistance. unsettledly, obscurely. ANTONYM: disloyal, incorrect, sham, mistaken,
backward: (adj, adv) late, behindhand; (adv) temporarily. fallacious, treacherous, wrong,
(adj) tardy, retarded, reluctant, coy, schoolboy: (n) lad, scholar, pupil, faithless, inaccurate. ANTONYMS:
slow, laggard, dilatory; (adv) behind, student, disciple, learner, schoolchild, (adj) faithful, true, valid, factual,
backwardly. ANTONYMS: (adj, adv) youngun, younker, youth, school honest, reliable, correct, truthful,
ahead; (adv) onward; (adj) quick, child. loyal, real.
4 The Education of Henry Adams
The “Chartres” was finished and privately printed in 1904. The “Education”
proved to be more difficult. The point on which the author failed to please
himself, and could get no light from readers or friends, was the usual one of
literary form. Probably he saw it in advance, for he used to say, half in jest, that
his great ambition was to complete St. Augustine’s “Confessions,” but that St.
Augustine, like a great artist, had worked from multiplicity to unity, while he,
like a small one, had to reverse the method and work back from unity to
multiplicity. The scheme became unmanageable as he approached his end.%
Probably he was, in fact, trying only to work into it his favorite theory of
history, which now fills the last three or four chapters of the “Education,” and he
could not satisfy himself with his workmanship. At all events, he was still
pondering over the problem in 1910, when he tried to deal with it in another way
which might be more intelligible to students. He printed a small volume called
“A Letter to American Teachers,” which he sent to his associates in the American
Historical Association, hoping to provoke some response. Before he could satisfy
himself even on this minor point, a severe illness in the spring of 1912 put an end
to his literary activity forever.
The matter soon passed beyond his control. In 1913 the Institute of Architects
published the “Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres.” Already the “Education” had
become almost as well known as the “Chartres,” and was freely quoted by every
book whose author requested it. The author could no longer withdraw either
volume; he could no longer rewrite either, and he could not publish that which
he thought unprepared and unfinished, although in his opinion the other was
historically purposeless without its sequel. In the end, he preferred to leave the
“Education” unpublished, avowedly incomplete, trusting that it might quietly
fade from memory. According to his theory of history as explained in Chapters
XXXIII and XXXIV, the teacher was at best helpless, and, in the immediate future,
silence next to good-temper was the mark of sense. After midsummer, 1914, the
rule was made absolute.
The Massachusetts Historical Society now publishes the “Education” as it
was printed in 1907, with only such marginal corrections as the author made,
Thesaurus
according: (adj) pursuant, consonant, beloved, popular; (n) pet, choice, random, objectless, nonsensical,
equal, agreeable, harmonious, pick, preference. ANTONYMS: (n) designless; (adj, adv) aimless,
conformable, consistent, indifference, superior, underdog; directionless. ANTONYM: (adj)
corresponding, respondent; (adv) (adj) unwanted, despised, disliked, meaningful.
correspondingly, accordingly. hated, unusual. requested: (adj) demanded.
avowedly: (adv) professedly, jest: (n) gag, gibe, quip, game; (n, v) unmanageable: (adj) unwieldy,
admittedly, confessedly, apparently, jape; (v) banter, jeer, deride, gird, intractable, uncontrollable, awkward,
openly, patently, publicly, sneer, clown. cumbersome, stubborn, clumsy,
acknowledgedly, true, as midsummer: (n) summer, solstice, bulky, recalcitrant, ungovernable,
acknowledged, ostensibly. June solstice, June. obstinate. ANTONYMS: (adj)
favorite: (adj, n) darling, favourite, purposeless: (adj) meaningless, manageable, orderly, wieldy,
dear, number one; (adj) favored, senseless, useless, driftless, empty, amenable, biddable.
Henry Adams 5
and it does this, not in opposition to the author’s judgment, but only to put both
volumes equally within reach of students who have occasion to consult them.%
HENRY CABOT LODGE
September, 1918
Thesaurus
consult: (v) consider, negotiate, discrimination; (n) determination, support, acceptance, approval,
deliberate, advise, refer, discuss, ask, discretion, opinion, assessment, backing, encouragement, inclination,
reason, look up, canvass; (n, v) talk. adjudication. ANTONYMS: (n) goodwill, ease, agreement,
ANTONYMS: (v) ignore, bypass. clumsiness, request, tastelessness. cooperation.
equally: (adv) evenly, equivalently, occasion: (n, v) cause; (n) case, event, reach: (n, v) fetch, stretch; (adj, v)
levelly, alike, justly, as, parallelly, juncture, episode, incident; (v) bring overtake, pass, extend; (v) obtain,
uniformly, similarly; (adj, adv, conj) as about, create, beget, make, induce. achieve, make, attain, get; (n)
well; (adj) even. ANTONYMS: (adv) opposition: (n) conflict, contrary, compass. ANTONYMS: (v)
unevenly, individually, differently, contrariety, opposite, hostility, withdraw, differ, fail.
unfairly. enemy, opponent, antagonism,
judgment: (n, v) decision, belief, competition, contradiction; (n, prep)
discernment, condemnation, sense, antithesis. ANTONYMS: (n) ally,
Henry Adams 7
PREFACE
Thesaurus
contemptible: (adj) abject, mean, base, educators, preceptor, trainer. single, plain. ANTONYM: (adj)
pitiful, little, worthless, unworthy, embellished: (adj) ornamented, impure.
miserable, ignoble, abominable, rhetorical, decorated, fancy, florid, unworthiness: (n) baseness,
shameful. ANTONYMS: (adj) tall, rich, embroidered, elaborate, despicability, despicableness,
estimable, admired, deserving, baroque; (prep) beautied. badness, unworth, shamefulness,
worthy, honorable, respectable, swarm: (n) host, horde, multitude, ignominiousness, disgracefulness,
respectful, noble, generous, drove, throng, cloud, assembly; (n, v) bad. ANTONYM: (n) worthiness.
commendable, good. mob; (v) teem, pour; (adj) shoal. vehement: (adj) fierce, intense, violent,
declined: (adj) less. ANTONYMS: (v) retreat; (n) few. strong, furious, passionate, ferocious,
educator: (n) instructor, schoolmaster, unmixed: (adj, v) simple, sheer, mere, eager, hot, fervent, fervid.
pedagogue, academic, academician, downright; (adj) absolute, unmingled, ANTONYMS: (adj) impassionate,
coach, professional, master, undiluted, straight, uncompounded, indifferent, mild, calm.
8 The Education of Henry Adams
Thesaurus
draped: (adj) mantled, covered, manikin: (n) model, homunculus, patchwork: (n) miscellany, melange,
cloaked, clothed, curtained, dummy, mannikin, mannequin, odds and ends, hodgepodge, check,
disguised, absorbed, clad. Manacus, phantom, manakin, medley, mess, ambigu, magma,
efface: (v) cancel, erase, obliterate, figurine, form, fashion model. pasticcio, parenthesis.
destroy, expunge, wipe out, mastery: (n) dominance, dominion, tailor: (v) sew, fashion, shape,
suppress, sponge, blot out, blur, raze. command, domination, ascendancy, accommodate, design, cut, adjust, fit;
gained: (adj) extrinsic. ascendency, control, authority, (n) snip, dressmaker, sartor.
garment: (n, v) garb, apparel; (n) mastership, supremacy, ascendance. utmost: (adj, n) maximum, extreme,
habiliment, habit, gown, vest, things, misfit: (n) anthropoid, ape, dork, uttermost, furthermost, best, highest;
guise; (v) clothe, tog, raiment. birdbrain, loon, eccentric, fish out of (adj, adv) farthest; (adj, v) supreme;
geometrical: (adj) nonrepresentational, water, loner, anomaly, oddity, (adj) last, furthest; (adj, n, v) greatest.
mathematical. radical. ANTONYM: (n) conformist. ANTONYMS: (adj) moderate, worst.
Henry Adams 9
CHAPTER I
QUINCY (1838-1848)
UNDER the shadow of Boston State House, turning its back on the house of
John Hancock, the little passage called Hancock Avenue runs, or ran, from
Beacon Street, skirting the State House grounds, to Mount Vernon Street, on the
summit of Beacon Hill; and there, in the third house below Mount Vernon Place,
February 16, 1838, a child was born, and christened later by his uncle, the
minister of the First Church after the tenets of Boston Unitarianism, as Henry
Brooks Adams.%
Had he been born in Jerusalem under the shadow of the Temple and
circumcised in the Synagogue by his uncle the high priest, under the name of
Israel Cohen, he would scarcely have been more distinctly branded, and not
much more heavily handicapped in the races of the coming century, in running
for such stakes as the century was to offer; but, on the other hand, the ordinary
traveller, who does not enter the field of racing, finds advantage in being, so to
speak, ticketed through life, with the safeguards of an old, established traffic.
Safeguards are often irksome, but sometimes convenient, and if one needs them
at all, one is apt to need them badly. A hundred years earlier, such safeguards as
his would have secured any young man’s success; and although in 1838 their
Thesaurus
branded: (adj) identified, known, underprivileged, unfit, weak. frill, frame, flounce; (adj) border,
proprietary, recognized. irksome: (adj, v) wearisome, tiresome; flanking, parietal, marginal.
circumcised: (adj) unforeskinned, less. (adj) boring, dull, annoying, tedious, stakes: (n) stake, ante, wager, kitty,
distinctly: (adv) clearly, particularly, trying, burdensome, bothersome, jackpot, pool, pot, gamble, prize,
evidently, expressly, obviously, irritating, prosaic. ANTONYMS: (adj) interest, fence.
markedly, definitely, precisely, delightful, pleasant, refreshing, tenets: (n) doctrine, system of belief,
manifestly, separately, decidedly. soothing. view, canon, code of belief, credenda,
ANTONYMS: (adv) inaudibly, races: (n) racing, athletics. belief, ideology.
faintly, vaguely, silently, secured: (adj) secure, protected, firm, traveller: (n) passenger, tourist,
imperceptibly, poorly. locked, fast, bonded, bolted, barred, wanderer, voyager, wayfarer, mover,
handicapped: (adj) cripple, handicap, latched, securer, obtained. itinerant, courier, entrant, swimmer,
crippled, lame, incapacitated, skirting: (n) skirt, edging, fringe, list, outlander.
10 The Education of Henry Adams
value was not very great compared with what they would have had in 1738, yet
the mere accident of starting a twentieth-century career from a nest of
associations so colonial,—so troglodytic—as the First Church, the Boston State
House, Beacon Hill, John Hancock and John Adams, Mount Vernon Street and
Quincy, all crowding on ten pounds of unconscious babyhood, was so queer as
to offer a subject of curious speculation to the baby long after he had witnessed
the solution. What could become of such a child of the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, when he should wake up to find himself required to play
the game of the twentieth? Had he been consulted, would he have cared to play
the game at all, holding such cards as he held, and suspecting that the game was
to be one of which neither he nor any one else back to the beginning of time
knew the rules or the risks or the stakes? He was not consulted and was not
responsible, but had he been taken into the confidence of his parents, he would
certainly have told them to change nothing as far as concerned him. He would
have been astounded by his own luck. Probably no child, born in the year, held
better cards than he. Whether life was an honest game of chance, or whether the
cards were marked and forced, he could not refuse to play his excellent hand. He
could never make the usual plea of irresponsibility. He accepted the situation as
though he had been a party to it, and under the same circumstances would do it
again, the more readily for knowing the exact values. To his life as a whole he
was a consenting, contracting party and partner from the moment he was born
to the moment he died. Only with that understanding—as a consciously
assenting member in full partnership with the society of his age—had his
education an interest to himself or to others.%
As it happened, he never got to the point of playing the game at all; he lost
himself in the study of it, watching the errors of the players; but this is the only
interest in the story, which otherwise has no moral and little incident. A story of
education—seventy years of it—the practical value remains to the end in doubt,
like other values about which men have disputed since the birth of Cain and
Abel; but the practical value of the universe has never been stated in dollars.
Although every one cannot be a Gargantua-Napoleon-Bismarck and walk off
with the great bells of Notre Dame, every one must bear his own universe, and
Thesaurus
assenting: (adj) assentient, consenting, early childhood, cradle; (adj) irresponsibleness, arbitrariness,
acquiescent, unanimous, in accord, puerility. ANTONYMS: (n) exemption, freedom, release, liberty,
favorable; (n) agreement, accession, parenthood, adolescence. renunciation, untrustiness,
confession; (adv) consentingly; (v) centuries: (n) century. untrustworthiness, insanity.
agree. ANTONYM: (adj) conflicting. consenting: (adj) agreeable, yielding, ANTONYMS: (n) caution, maturity,
astounded: (adj) amazed, stunned, submissive, consentant, compliant, deliberation, carefulness, reliability.
flabbergasted, bewildered, affirmative, accepting; (v) complying, queer: (adj) fantastic, odd, eccentric,
dumbfounded, surprised, staggered, chosen. funny, curious, gay, peculiar, strange,
astonied, dazed, astound, aghast. crowding: (n) plough crowding, quaint, fishy, outlandish.
babyhood: (n) childhood, immaturity, bunch, jostlement, overcrowding. ANTONYMS: (adj) conventional,
babehood, girlhood, youthhood, dollars: (n) bread. normal, well.
immatureness, boyhood, early days, irresponsibility: (n) flightiness, twentieth-century: (adj) modern.
Henry Adams 11
most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have
managed to carry theirs.%
This problem of education, started in 1838, went on for three years, while the
baby grew, like other babies, unconsciously, as a vegetable, the outside world
working as it never had worked before, to get his new universe ready for him.
Often in old age he puzzled over the question whether, on the doctrine of
chances, he was at liberty to accept himself or his world as an accident. No such
accident had ever happened before in human experience. For him, alone, the old
universe was thrown into the ash-heap and a new one created. He and his
eighteenth-century, troglodytic Boston were suddenly cut apart—separated
forever—in act if not in sentiment, by the opening of the Boston and Albany
Railroad; the appearance of the first Cunard steamers in the bay; and the
telegraphic messages which carried from Baltimore to Washington the news that
Henry Clay and James K. Polk were nominated for the Presidency. This was in
May, 1844; he was six years old ; his new world was ready for use, and only
fragments of the old met his eyes.
Of all this that was being done to complicate his education, he knew only the
color of yellow. He first found himself sitting on a yellow kitchen floor in strong
sunlight. He was three years old when he took this earliest step in education; a
lesson of color. The second followed soon; a lesson of taste. On December 3, 1841,
he developed scarlet fever. For several days he was as good as dead, reviving
only under the careful nursing of his family. When he began to recover strength,
about January 1, 1842, his hunger must have been stronger than any other
pleasure or pain, for while in after life he retained not the faintest recollection of
his illness, he remembered quite clearly his aunt entering the sickroom bearing
in her hand a saucer with a baked apple.
The order of impressions retained by memory might naturally be that of
color and taste, although one would rather suppose that the sense of pain would
be first to educate. In fact, the third recollection of the child was that of
discomfort. The moment he could be removed, he was bundled up in blankets
and carried from the little house in Hancock Avenue to a larger one which his
Thesaurus
bundled: (adj) wrapped. educate: (v) instruct, civilize, train, ANTONYM: (adj) soothing.
color: (n, v) flush, blush, tint, tinge, cultivate, coach, bring up, drill, saucer: (n) plate, platter, discus, bowl,
paint, stain; (adj, n, v) colour; (v) discipline, breed, rear, nurture. pan, dot, calabash, disk, dish
redden; (n) guise, complexion; (adj, n) impressions: (n) impersonation, antenna, point, porringer.
tone. ANTONYMS: (v) discolor, pale, imitation. sickroom: (n) infirmary, sick bay,
show, whiten, untwist, denote, neighbors: (n) neighbourhood. sanitarium, room.
depict, represent, blanch, blench. polk: (n) president Polk, James Polk. telegraphic: (v) eagle winged, electric,
complicate: (v) perplex, confuse, reviving: (adj) bracing, restorative, winged; (adj) concise, telegraphical,
intricate, aggravate, embrangle, renewing, refreshing, revival, brisk, semaphorical.
entangle, involved, muddle, tangle, enlivening, recuperative, troglodytic: (adj) inhospitable,
puzzle, snarl. ANTONYMS: (v) reanimating, promoting Sauvage, cynical, troglodyte, lonely,
simplify, explain, resolve, assist. recuperation, giving life. unclubbable.
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