Henry Adams

"At last their universe had been wrecked by rays, and Karl Pearson undertook to cut the wreck loose with an axe, leaving science adrift on a sensual raft in the midst of a supersensual chaos."

"As educator, Jean Jacques was, in one respect, easily first; he erected a monument of warning against the Ego. Since his time, and largely thanks to him, the Ego has steadily tended to efface itself, …"

"The schoolmen saw their duty in one direction; Francis saw his in another; and the two paths seem to be the only roads that can exist, if man starts by taking for granted that there is an object to be…"

"...the quality that arouses most surprise in Thomism is its astonishingly scientific method. Avowedly science has aimed at nothing but the reduction of multiplicity to unity, and has excommunicated, a…"

"Objections fatal to one mind are futile to another."

"Some millions of other people felt the same helplessness, but few of them were seeking education, and to them helplessness seemed natural and normal, for they had grown up in the habit of thinking a s…"

"Only one man in Adams's reach seemed to him supremely fitted by knowledge and experience to be an adviser and friend. This was Senator Sumner; and there, in fact, the young man's education began; ther…"

"...we must go to the poets to see what they all meant by it; but the sum is an emotion — clear and strong as love and much clearer than logic,— whose charm lies in its unstable balance. The Transition…"