Capitolo 59
the best in the world for every purpose that could offer a
you object for going toward west. If never in men of history you/he/she had been able
to calculate ahead of a certainty for a life, the
city some great Oriental seaports could do him/it in 1850 when
their systems of platform were already out staid. Neither to a
statesman neither to a business-man neither to some of the scholar
professions made the promise Of the west some certain advantage, while it
the uncertainties offered in abundance.
To some other moment in human history, this education, included
its political and literary deviation, would have been good not only,
but completely the best. Society had always welcomed cordially and you/he/she had adulated men
so gifted. Henry Adams was every right be settled well with
it, and not sick-pleased with him. He had everybody that he has wanted. Him
it any reason to think that any another had more. Him
ended with school, not very brightly, but without finding
you blame with the sum of his/her knowledge. He probably knew more than
his/her father or his/her grandfather, or his/her great-grandfather had
known to sixteen old. Only on to look again, fifty years
later, to his/her his/her own figure in 1854, and pondering on the necessities of
the twentieth century, he wondered, on the whole one the boy
of 1854 been standing more next to the thought of 1904, or to that of the
per annum 1. He was found incapable to give a sure answer. The
the calculation had clouded from the indefinite values of
twentieth-century thought, but the history will show its reasons
to think that, in essentials as religion, moral,
philosophy; in history, the literature, art; in the concepts of everybody
science, omits perhaps mathematics the American boy of 1854,
is standing nearer the year 1 that a year 1900. The education him
you/he/she had received hole the small relationship to the education of which he has had need.
Speaking as an American of 1900, he had as he/she anchors any education to
everybody. He didn't also know where or as to start.
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