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| "At the rate of progress since 1800, every American who lived into the year 2000 would know how to control unlimited power."-- Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams (1907). |
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Poe: "The Philosophy of Composition" Poincare: Excerpts from "Mathematical Creation"
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| "Before [Adams] was six years old, he had seen four impossibilities made actual--the ocean-steamer, the railway, the electric telegraph, and the Daguerreotype; nor could he ever learn which of the four had most hurried others to come."He had seen the coal-output of the United States grow from nothing to three hundred million tons or more. What was far more serious, he had seen the number of minds, engaged in pursuing force--the truest measure of its attraction--increase from a few scores or hundreds in 1938 to many thousands in 1905, trained to sharpness never before reached, and armed with instruments amounting to new senses of indefinite power and accuracy. . . ."--The Education of Henry Adams. |
| Questions:
David L. Simpson
(dsimpson@condor.depaul.edu) The School for New Learning, DePaul University , Chicago, IL 60604 © David L. Simpson, 1998 |
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