The six-volume set of the Letters of Henry Adams, on the correspondence of Henry Adams, Volumes 1-3:1858-1892 (Ѻ) and Volumes 4-6:1892-1918 (Ѻ), are filled with some of the deepest and richest two cultures intellectual statements and dialogues ever produced, possibly second only to Goethe and his volumes of correspondence. |
See main: Adams quotesThe following are representative and or related Adams' quotes:
“My rule in making up examination questions is to ask questions which I can’t myself answer. It astounds me to see how some of my students answer questions which would play the deuce with me.”— Henry Adams (c.1890) (Ѻ)
“Man is an imperceptible atom always trying to become one with god.”— Henry Adams (c.1890) (Ѻ)“Force and war must be moralized somehow, perhaps as in a physical or chemical process that reaches equilibrium.”— Harold Kaplan (1981), Power and Order: Henry Adams and the American Naturalist Tradition; synopsis of Adams’ formulaic view of natural history [1]