Capitolo 12
it was tropical license. If his/her children rolled in the grass,
or it passed to ford in the brook, or it swam in the ocean of salt, or it sailed in
the bay, or it fished for deep in the streams, or it set the nets in minnows in
the salt-swamps, or taken to the pine-wood and the granite
it digs, or it pursued muskrats and it chased it bite-goes in search of turtle in the
swamps or mushrooms or crazy on the hills in autumn, footsteps the summer and
country both always living sensual, while winter was always
obligatory culture. Summer was the multiplicity of nature;
winter was school.
The carrying one of the two seasons on the education of Henry Adams
it was not desire; it was the most decisive strength that he has ever known; runs
although the life, and it made the division among his/her making perplexed,
warlike problems, irreconcilable, irreducible opposites with
increasing emphasis a last year of study. From first
infancy the boy had accustomed for feeling that, for him, life was,
double. Winter and summer, city and country, law and the liberty,
it was hostile, and the man that pretended that they was not, it was in his
eyes a teacher--or, a man assumed to say lies to
small boys. Although Quincy was but the walk of two Light hours of signaling
Reduces to a hillock, it belonged to a different world. For two hundred years,
every Adams, from father to child you/he/she had lived inside sight of State
Road, and you/he/she had sometimes lived in him, nobody had still taken never
kindly in the city, or takes kind from him. The boy inherited
his/her double nature. He knew as he/she anchors nothing his
great-grandfather in front of that a dozen of his/her years was dead really
birth: him taken for granted that any great-grandfather of his owes
you/he/she has always been good, and his/her enemies I win; but he foretold his
great-grandfather's character from his really. Never for a moment
him connected the two ideas in Boston and John Adams; they was
separate and antagonistic; the idea of John Adams went with
Quincy. He only knew his/her grandfather John Quincy Adams as an old man