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The Education of Henry Adams

Henry Adams

Form
Form Autobiography
Year
Year 1907
Pages
Pages 520

A descendant of two presidents looks back on his life in the third person and decides his education left him unready for a new, accelerating world of force, symbolised for him by a humming dynamo at a Paris exhibition.

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.
The Education of Henry Adams, Henry Adams

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