“ New power was disintegrating society, and setting independent centres of force to work, until money had all it could do to hold the machine together. No one could represent it faithfully as a whole. ”
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1906). copy citation
| Author | Henry Adams |
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| Source | The Education of Henry Adams |
| Topic | society money |
| Date | 1906 |
| Language | English |
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| Weblink | http://www.gutenberg.org/files/2044/2044-h/2044-h.htm |
Context
“The old ones were quite difficult enough--State Street and the banks exacted one stamp; the old Congregational clergy another; Harvard College, poor in votes, but rich in social influence, a third; the foreign element, especially the Irish, held aloof, and seldom consented to approve any one; the new socialist class, rapidly growing, promised to become more exclusive than the Irish. New power was disintegrating society, and setting independent centres of force to work, until money had all it could do to hold the machine together. No one could represent it faithfully as a whole. Naturally, Adams's sympathies lay strongly with Lodge, but the task of appreciation was much more difficult in his case than in that of his chief friend and scholar, the President. As a type for study, or a standard for education, Lodge was the more interesting of the two.”
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