Henry Adams Quote

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking for a round century before going further.


Letters of Henry Adams...: 1892-1918 (ed. New York, Houghton, 1938)


As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking...

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking...

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking...

As history stands, it is a sort of Chinese play, without end andl without lesson. With these impressions I wrote the last line of my History, asking...