The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that it takes for a fact; it has a conventional approach, a conventional analysis, and a conventional conclusion, as well as a conventional expression, all the time loudly asserting its unconventionality.


The Education of Henry Adams (1907)

Henry Adams Quotes

The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that ...

The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that ...

The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that ...

The American mind — the Bostonian as well as the Southern or Western — likes to walk straight up to its object, and assert or deny something that ...