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That duty implied not only resistance to evil, but hatred of it. ''Resistance to something was the law of New England nature the boy looked out on the world with the instinct of resistance for numberless generations his predecessors had viewed the world chiefly as a thing to be reformed,įilled with evil forces to be abolished, and they saw no reason to suppose that they had wholly succeeded in the abolition the duty was unchanged. Of the New England atmosphere in which he was His record of his childhood is unforgettable in its charm and vividness. Portraits - all these are irresistible as matters of readability and as features of the author's literary style. Its dry comment on things Bostonian and otherwise, its whimsical humor, its detached way of presenting the subject of the history - who is always referred to in the third person in this autobiography - its charming, tender, vivid The book would be worth reading for no other purpose. It is to be hoped that the publication of ''The Education of Henry Adams'' will serve as introduction where that is needed. But it is unfortunate that the general public in his own country has given so little of its attention to the American historian who was Charles Francis Adams's It might quietly fade from memory.'' It has not faded from memory. Adams, however, to whose literary career a severe illness had put an end in 1912, had decided to have his autobiography, as Senator Lodge points out in his preface, ''unpublished, avowedly incomplete, trusting that Yet in 1913, when the Institute of Architects published the ''Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres,'' scholars already knew the ''Education'' Is now published, by the Massachusetts Historical Society, for the first time. ''Mont-Saint-Michel and Chartres: A Study of Thirteenth Century Unity,'' which had been finished and privately printed the year before: 100 copies were privately printed, and sent to persons interested, in 1906 it

Written in 1905, ''The Education of Henry Adams: A Study of Twentieth Century Multiplicity,'' was a sequel to Whimsical, deep-thinking, suggestive, a book greatly worth the waiting for. It is a book of unique richness, of unforgettable comment and challenging thought, a book delightful, Commercial publication had to await its author's 1918 death, whereupon it won the 1919 Pulitzer Prize.Or the autobiography of Henry Adams we have waited for twelve years.

In 1907, Adams began privately circulating copies of a limited edition printed at his own expense. It is also a sharp critique of 19th century educational theory and practice. The Education of Henry Adams records the struggle of Bostonian Henry Adams (1838-1918), in early old age, to come to terms with the dawning 20th century, so different from the world of his youth. Download cover art Download CD case insert The Education of Henry Adams