Capitolo 15
entirely comprehensive. Quincy was not a bed of roses of thornless. Also
there the curse of the set of Cain his/her mark. There as elsewhere a cruel
universe combined to crush a child. As if three or four
vigorous brothers and sisters, with the better wish they were not
enough to crush some child, every another conspired toward a
education that he hated. From crib to grave this problem of
order in march through chaos, direction through space, discipline
through the liberty, unity through the multiplicity, has been always, and
it has to be always, the assignment of education, as it is the moral one of
religion, the philosophy, science, art, politics and economy; but a
the wish of boy is its life, and he dies when it is broken, as the
colt dies in safety belt, while taking a new nature in to become domestic.
It rarely has the boy him felt kind toward his/her tamers. Among him
and his/her master you/he/she has always been war. Henry Adams never knew a boy
of his/her generation please a master and the assignment to remain on
friendly terms with his/her own family of one, in such relationship they were
never easy.
All the most unusual seemed later to him that his
before serious contact with the President would be due to be a
lotteries of the wish in that the old man almost necessarily
defeated the boy, but instead of going away, as usual in this way
defeats, a sting of the whole life they left rather as correctly an impression of
treatment as you/he/she could be waited him by a natural enemy. The boy met
rarely with such limitation. He could not be a lot more than
six years old to the duration--seven at the most--and his
mother had brought him to Quincy for a long stay with the President
during the summer. What became after all of the family him completely
forgotten; but he remembered to separately be of forehead to the door of house
a morning in summer in an impassioned burst of rebellion against
going to school. Naturally his/her mother was the immediate victim of
his/her anger; that is what for mothers and boys are also; but in