Henry Adams was perhaps the top intellectual in America for decades, and edited the then very famous North American Review (1870–76). Moreover, he participated in the Liberal Republican movement. This group of insurgents, repelled by partisanship and the scandals of the Grant administration, bolted the Republican Party in 1872 and nominated the Democrat Horace Greeley for president.
Their crusade soon foundered. Adams grew disillusioned with a world he characterized as devoid of principle. He was disgusted with demagogic politicians and a society in which all became “servant[s] of the powerhouse.”
“Americans had no time for thought; they saw, and could see, nothing beyond their day’s work; their attitude to the universe outside them was that of the deep-sea fish.”
His anonymously published novel Democracy, an American Novel (1880) reflected his loss of faith. The heroine, Madeleine Lee, like Adams himself, becomes an intimate of Washington’s political circles. As confidante of a Midwestern senator, Madeleine is introduced to the democratic process. She meets the President and other figures who are equally vacuous. After her contact with the power brokers, Madeleine concluded: “Democracy has shaken my nerves to pieces.”
Does this mean democracy must be abolished?
No, Whites must be spiritually transformed so they finally are worthy of it!
No one wants an end to the fundamental Aryan right to choose our own leaders, to speak freely and criticize wrongs — and the right to own guns to defend our lives, our hard-earned possessions, and our freedoms!
…..Only enlightenment makes democracy doable
To be half-enlightened is to be a mere idealist, full of a laudable love and spirit of sacrifice for your nation and people.
But then the world rejects you. You find that 80% of even WHITE humanity consists of SOME crooks and MANY cowards.
As Henry Adams said:
“Americans had no time for thought; they saw, and could see, nothing beyond their day’s work; their attitude to the universe outside them was that of the deep-sea fish.”
As Winston Churchill said, and while he was an arch-villain, he was also a very perceptive politician:
As Jesus said, and I honor His words about idealistic self-sacrifice:
BUT if your mind has become an independent, separate entity and is tyrannizing over you, you become blind to reality.
You make insane decisions that harm yourself, your friends and loved ones.
And you cease to see yourself in the other fellow.
Now, a guy from Norway wrote me suggesting
“you should just come out as Hitler, since that is obviously what you believe, and it may be true.”
I decided not to write him back directly, but I will address here his childish “suggestion”:
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Well, if you really kept up with my work, you would know that I have,
— one, already “come out” on multiple occasions (see below), but
— two, Hitler, facing some overwhelming earthling realities, made some big mistakes (again, see below), and I am not overly proud of him.
I have no desire to emulate him, or bring back the hoary 1930s, with its sieg-heiling, goose-stepping, tooth-brush mustaches and shit-brown uniforms 😉 (the product of a close-out of Austrian Railroad uniforms of the Österreichische Bundesbahnen in the early 1920s). 😉
My only goal is to see clearly, and learn without egoic blinders, from both the very good 80% that happened in 1920-45 — and the bad-decision 20% that Hitler did as well.
The decision to invade Russia to conquer it, not liberate it with the full support of its Jew-hating Slavic people, was mad, and catastrophic in every sense.
(I note that the venerable Tom Metzger recently agreed with me on this in a radio interview with Jan Lamprecht of South Africa.)
Now, maybe Hitler fascism with all its trappings was a turn-on for the Germans — a very unique, militaristic, Spartan and (unless quite drunk 😉 ) ultra-serious people, a Volk who craves discipline, marching, and stiff uniforms. They even speak a Klingon-sounding, raucuous language. 😉 (I know — I speak it perfectly and without accent. And I lived in Austria and Germany.)
But all this Heil Hitlering turned off the rest of the white world — which does not enjoy taking orders, or a dictatorship, or any displays of seeming megalomania and infallibility.
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Aryans do not seek to be children and be told what to do, but to become adults and thus evolve upward, if only gradually, toward the point of accepting responsibility for the running of their own lives.
In this sense, the American Revolution, the Declaration of Independence, and the US Constitution were both flawed, premature and somewhat unrealistic, but also very well-motivated and very Aryan projects.
Italian and later German fascism came from the history of ancient Rome, which did have a dictatorship, yes, and the word “dictator” is Latin.
But the Roman dictator ruled for only six months — and his office was restricted to thwarting a literal invasion or a civil war. Then he would resign.
Roman senators assassinated Julius Caesar, for all his obvious genius and greatness, because he had set up a permanent dictatorship.
The goal of NS 2.0 is for us all to gradually become Hitlers — for us all to evolve, for us all to become heroic, and burn with a love for our race, our people and our incredible potential.
We are not even FROM this planet — we Aryans come from the gods.
It is for us all to achieve — gradually, via a spiritual retraining program that I am creating now — a higher consciousness, a new inner liberty, a healthy ego, not a sick one — one that is free from stark-raving delusions, and blindness to the truth. The true Aryan hates not people but their sins: their envy, their jealousy, their unreliability, their treachery, their selfishness, and their arrogant contempt for the worth, dignity and the feelings of all other beings — animal and human.
WE ALL must escape from the tyrannon, the separated mind.
This tyrannon is the true evil, and all people, especially the Jews themselves, are its miserable, self-torturing victims.
Two Jews are hanged by the Wehrmacht in the Jewish ghetto of Vilna, then in Poland. Though there was no Holocaust, about 500,000 Jews, almost all of them “little Jews,” died of shooting or hanging for partisan activities, or from disease and starvation.
Now as to point one, oh sage, I have (LOL) “come out ” on many occasions.
Way back in 2012 or 2013 I did so on a radio interview with John Friend of the Realist Report when he directly asked me.
In 2014: .https://johndenugent.com/images/AH-Damals-und-jetzt-Then-and-Now.mp4
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In this article (and in its earlier iterations)
https://johndenugent.com/why-it-should-be-beyond-obvious-to-not-look-that-much-like-hitler/
And most recently in this important video: .https://johndenugent.com/images/Jdn-Van-Rensburg-27-June-2018.mp4
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But I am not here again to become essential to you, or again to give you orders.
My mission is to become inessential — and for YOU to become essential!
It is to teach you to re-discover the higher self that you experience for a few seconds of pure joy when you have climbed a mountaintop, or seen an incredible sunset, or felt the serene power of a calm lake, and stopped all your inner mental chatter.
It is to become the real, the powerful you by one single step — to love and embrace every truth.
Then you can make your lower self, which wants to rebel, lie and believe lies and make excuses, obey the higher.
Then you can give your own self its orders — and expect that the real you will obey your own orders instantly.
You will not be a house divided.
My goal is indeed for you to gradually not need me at all, but for national socialism to enter your soul, permeate and transform it. Thus the right decisions will not come from above but gush out of the deepest depths of your own being. You will be sure-footed, based, grounded and calm, no matter what happens, and believe me, a lot will.
And then too it will become pointless for the Jews to assassinate me, for it will not cripple our movement, or change anything at all, just add me to a very long list of martyrs, one among many, who gladly died for our people, our beautiful people…
— whose potential is simply cosmic.
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.https://johndenugent.com/images/March-of-the-White-Race-Children-of-Elysium-Mjolnir.mp4
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…and now back to Henry Adams, like me in this life, from a very old and distinguished New England family
Henry Adams
Henry Adams
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Born | Henry Brooks Adams February 16, 1838 Boston, Massachusetts, U.S. |
Died | March 27, 1918 (aged 80) Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Resting place | Rock Creek Cemetery Washington, D.C., U.S. |
Pen name | Frances Snow Compton |
Occupation | |
Language | English |
Nationality | American |
Citizenship | American |
Alma mater | Harvard College University of Berlin |
Genre | memoir, history |
Notable works | The Education of Henry Adams, The History of the United States of America 1801–1817 |
Notable awards | Pulitzer Prize |
Spouse | Marian Hooper Adams |
Relatives |
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Henry Brooks Adams (February 16, 1838 – March 27, 1918) was an American historian and a member of the Adams political family, descended from two U.S. Presidents.
As a young Harvard graduate, he served as secretary to his father, Charles Francis Adams, Abraham Lincoln‘s ambassador to the United Kingdom. The posting influenced the younger man through the experience of wartime diplomacy, and absorption in English culture, especially the works of John Stuart Mill. After the American Civil War, he became a political journalist who entertained America’s foremost intellectuals at his homes in Washington and Boston.
During his lifetime, he was best known for The History of the United States of America During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, a nine-volume work, praised for its literary style, command of the documentary evidence, and deep (family) knowledge of the period and its major figures.
His posthumously published memoir, The Education of Henry Adams, won the Pulitzer Prize and went on to be named by the Modern Library as the best English-language nonfiction book of the 20th century.[1]
Early life[edit]
He was born in Boston on February 16, 1838, into one of the country’s most prominent families. His parents were Charles Francis Adams Sr. (1807–1886) and Abigail Brooks (1808–1889).[2] Both his paternal grandfather, John Quincy Adams, and great-grandfather, John Adams, one of the most prominent among the Founding Fathers, had been U.S. Presidents. His maternal grandfather, Peter Chardon Brooks, was one of Massachusetts’ most successful and wealthiest merchants. Another great-grandfather, Nathaniel Gorham, signed the Constitution.
After his graduation from Harvard University in 1858,[3] he embarked on a grand tour of Europe, during which he also attended lectures in civil law at the University of Berlin.
In his 50s, he was initiated into the Phi Kappa Psi fraternity as an honorary member at the 1893 Columbian Exposition by Harris J. Ryan, a judge for the exhibit on electrical engineering. Through that organization, he was a member of the Irving Literary Society.
During the Civil War[edit]
Adams returned home from Europe in the midst of the heated presidential election of 1860. He tried his hand again at law, taking employment with Judge Horace Gray‘s Boston firm, but this was short-lived.[4]
His father, Charles Francis Adams Sr., was also seeking re-election to the US House of Representatives.[4] After his successful re-election, Charles Francis asked Henry to be his private secretary, continuing a father-son pattern set by John and John Quincy and suggesting that Charles Francis had chosen Henry as the political scion of that generation of the family. Henry shouldered the responsibility reluctantly and with much self-doubt. “[I] had little to do”, he reflected later, “and knew not how to do it rightly.”[5]
During this time, Adams was the anonymous Washington correspondent for Charles Hale‘s Boston Daily Advertiser.
London (1861–68)[edit]
On March 19, 1861, Abraham Lincoln appointed Charles Francis Adams Sr. United States Ambassador to the United Kingdom. Henry accompanied his father to London as his private secretary. He also became the anonymous London correspondent for The New York Times. The two Adamses were kept very busy, monitoring Confederate diplomatic intrigues and trying to obstruct the construction of Confederate commerce raiders by British shipyards (see Alabama Claims). Henry’s writings for the Times argued that Americans should be patient with the British. While in Britain, Adams was befriended by many noted men, including Charles Lyell, Francis T. Palgrave, Richard Monckton Milnes, James Milnes Gaskell, and Charles Milnes Gaskell. He worked to introduce the young Henry James to English society, with the help of his closest and lifelong friend Charles Milnes Gaskell and his wife Lady Catherine (nee Wallop).[6]
While in Britain, Henry read and was taken with the works of John Stuart Mill. For Adams, Mill’s Considerations on Representative Government showed the necessity of an enlightened, moral, and intelligent elite to provide leadership to a government elected by the masses and subject to demagoguery, ignorance, and corruption. Henry wrote to his brother Charles that Mill demonstrated to him that “democracy is still capable of rewarding a conscientious servant.”[7] His years in London led Adams to conclude that he could best provide that knowledgeable and conscientious leadership by working as a correspondent and journalist.
Return to America[edit]
In 1868, Adams returned to the United States and settled in Washington, DC, where he began working as a journalist. Adams saw himself as a traditionalist longing for the democratic ideal of the 17th and 18th centuries. Accordingly, he was keen on exposing political corruption in his journalism.
Harvard professor[edit]
In 1870, Adams was appointed professor of medieval history at Harvard, a position he held until his early retirement in 1877 at 39.[3] As an academic historian, Adams is considered to have been the first (in 1874–1876) to conduct historical seminar work in the United States. Among his students was Henry Cabot Lodge, who worked closely with Adams as a graduate student.
Adams was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1875.[8]
Author[edit]
Adams’s The History of the United States of America (1801 to 1817) (9 vols., 1889–1891) is a highly detailed history of the Jefferson and Madison administrations with a focus on diplomacy.[9] Wide praise was given for its literary merit, especially the opening five chapters of volume 1, describing the nation in 1800. These chapters have also been criticized; Noble Cunningham states flatly, “Adams misjudged the state of the nation in 1800.” In striving for literary effect, Cunningham argues, Adams ignored the dynamism and sophistication of the new nation.[9] Such arguments aside, historians have long recognized it as a major and permanent monument of American historiography. It has been called “a neglected masterpiece” by Garry Wills,[10] and “a history yet to be replaced” by the great historian C. Vann Woodward.
In the 1880s, Adams wrote two novels, starting with Democracy, which was published anonymously in 1880 and immediately became popular in literary circles in England and Europe as well as in America. (Only after Adams’s death did his publisher reveal his authorship.) His other novel, published under the nom de plume of Frances Snow Compton, was Esther, whose heroine was believed to be modeled after his wife.[11]
During the late 1860s and early 1870s, Adams edited, with the assistance of his brother Charles Francis Adams, the major American intellectual-literary journal, The North American Review. During his tenure it published a number of articles exposing corrupt malpractices in finance, corporations and government, anticipating the work of the “muckrakers” by a generation. The brothers collected several of their most important essays in Chapters Of Erie (1871). This experience marked the public commencement of Henry Adams’ critical observation of, and radical disenchantment with, the operations and ascendancy of corporations and centralized finance in the economic, social and political life of America. Summarizing the observations of a lifetime, he wrote to his brother Brooks on September 20, 1910 (vol. 6, pp. 369-370, Letters, ed. Levenson et al.): “Our system of protection [of industry and commerce]… is fatal to our principles…. Railways, trusts, banking-system, manufactures, capital and labor, all rest on the principle of monopoly …
The suggestion that these great corporate organisms, which now perform all the vital functions of our social life, should behave themselves decently, gives away our contention that they have no right to exist. Nor am I prepared to admit that more decency can be attained through a legislature made up of similar people exercising similar illegal powers…. From top to bottom the whole system is a fraud.… The conviction of having reached this point where we have no choice but to go on in our own rot, drove me out of all share in public affairs twenty years ago.. Every one who has assumed such a share since then has only muddled and made the matter worse.”
In 1884, Adams was elected a member of the American Antiquarian Society.[12] In 1892, he received the degree LL.D., from Western Reserve University.[3] In 1894, Adams was elected president of the American Historical Association. His address, entitled “The Tendency of History,” was delivered in absentia. The essay predicted the development of a scientific approach to history, but was somewhat ambiguous as to what this achievement might mean.
During the 1890s, Adams exercised a profound and fruitful influence over the thought and writings of his younger brother Brooks. Brooks’ essay, “The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma,” an offshoot of their decades long conversations and correspondence, was published years later.
Adams was an accomplished poet and in later life a friend of young poets—notably George Cabot Lodge and Trumbull Stickney—but published nothing in his lifetime.
His important poems “Buddha and Brahma” and “Prayers to the Virgin and the Dynamo” are included (respectively) in the Library of America’s Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Anthologies, and a half dozen sonnets, a Troubadour translation, and one lyric are scattered through the letters. It is an open question whether the Massachusetts Historical Society or other archives preserve more.
In 1904, Adams privately published a copy of his “Mont Saint Michel and Chartres“, a pastiche of history, travel, and poetry that celebrated the unity of medieval society, especially as represented in the great cathedrals of France.
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Mont Saint Michel
Chartres Cathedral, nearly unchanged since 1220 (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chartres_Cathedral)
JdN: What too few understand is that heaven IS beautiful like this, as many who had positive NDEs have stated. (One quarter, however, have negative experiences.)
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Originally meant as a diversion for his nieces and “nieces-in-wish”, it was publicly released in 1913 at the request of Ralph Adams Cram, an important American architect, and published with support of the American Institute of Architects.
He published The Education of Henry Adams in 1907, in a small private edition for selected friends. Only following Adams’s death was The Education made available to the general public, in an edition issued by the Massachusetts Historical Society.
It ranked first on the Modern Library‘s 1998 list of 100 Best Nonfiction Books and was named the best book of the 20th century by the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative organization that promotes classical education.[13]
It was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1919.
The Modern Library n 1998 placed it first in a list of the top 100 English-language nonfiction books of the 20th century.
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Some center-right intellectuals view the book critically. Conservative journalist (((Fred Siegel))) considered the worldview expressed therein to be rooted in resentment of America’s middle class.
“Henry Adams,” wrote Siegel, “grounded the intellectual’s alienation from American life in the resentment that superior men feel when they are insufficiently appreciated in America’s common-man culture.”[14] Others view Adams’s critique of the commercialism, corruption and pecuniolatry of American mercantile culture as central.
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Personal life[edit]
Relations[edit]
Siblings[edit]
John Quincy Adams II (1833–1894) was a graduate of Harvard (1853), practiced law, and was a Democratic member for several terms of the Massachusetts general court. In 1872, he was nominated for vice president by the Democratic faction that refused to support the nomination of Horace Greeley.
Charles Francis Adams Jr. (1835–1915) fought with the Union in the Civil War, receiving in 1865 the brevet of brigadier general in the regular army. He became an authority on railway management as the author of Railroads, Their Origin and Problems (1878), and as president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. He collaborated with Henry on the editing of The North Atlantic Review and other projects.
Brooks Adams (1848–1927) practiced law and became a writer. His books include The Gold Standard (1894), The Law of Civilization and Decay (1895), America’s Economic Supremacy (1900), The New Empire (1902), The Theory of Social Revolutions (1914), and The Emancipation of Massachusetts (1919). Henry’s influence on and involvement with his youngest brother’s thought and writing was profound and enduring.
Louisa Catherine Adams Kuhn Her brother describes her death in 1870 from tetanus following a carriage accident in Bagni di Lucca in his Chaos Chapter of The Education of Henry Adams. She is buried in Florence’s ‘English’ Cemetery.
Social life and friendships[edit]
Adams was a member of an exclusive circle, a group of friends called the “Five of Hearts” that consisted of Henry, his wife Clover, geologist and mountaineer Clarence King, John Hay (assistant to Lincoln and later Secretary of State), and Hay’s wife Clara.
One of Adams’s frequent travel companions was the artist John La Farge, with whom he journeyed to Japan and the South Seas.
From 1885 until 1888, Theodore Frelinghuysen Dwight (1846–1917), the State Department‘s chief librarian, lived with Adams at his home at 1603 H Street in Washington, D.C., where he served as Adams’s literary assistant, personal secretary, and household manager. Dwight would go on to serve as archivist of the Adams family archives in Quincy, Massachusetts; director of the Boston Public Library; and U.S. Consul at Vevey, Switzerland.
Marriage to Marian “Clover” Hooper[edit]
On June 27, 1872, Adams married Clover Hooper in Beverly, Massachusetts. They spent their honeymoon in Europe, much of it with Charles Milnes Gaskell at Wenlock Abbey, Shropshire.[15] While there, exemplifying the New England civic conscience she and Henry shared, Clover wrote “England is charming for a few families but hopeless for most … Thank the Lord that the American eagle flaps and screams over us.” Upon their return, Adams went back to his position at Harvard, and their home at 91 Marlborough Street, Boston, became a gathering place for a lively circle of intellectuals.[16] In 1877, his wife and he moved to Washington, DC, where their home on Lafayette Square, across from the White House, again became a dazzling and witty center of social life. He worked as a journalist and continued working as a historian.
Her suicide[edit]
On Sunday morning, December 6, 1885, after a late breakfast at their home, 1607 H Street on Lafayette Square, Clover Hooper Adams went to her room. Henry, troubled by a toothache, had planned to see his dentist. While departing his home, he was met by a woman calling to see his wife. Adams went upstairs to her room to ask if she would receive the visitor and found his wife lying on a rug before the fire; an opened vial of potassium cyanide, which Clover had frequently used in processing photographs, lay nearby. Adams carried his wife to a sofa, then ran for a doctor. Shortly thereafter, Dr. Charles E. Hagner pronounced Clover dead.[17]
Much speculation and numerous theories have been given concerning the causes of Clover Adams’s suicide. Her death has been attributed to depression over her father’s death,[18] as well as a family history of mental depression and suicide[citation needed]. Posthumous speculation has been made more difficult by Henry Adams’s destruction of most of Clover’s letters and photos following her death.[19] His autobiography maintains a profound silence about his wife after her suicide.
Adams’s grief was profound and enduring. The event was life-shattering for Adams and profoundly altered the course of his life.
Henry, his brother, Charles Francis Adams, Clover’s brother Edward, and her sister Ellen, with her husband Ephraim Gurney, were the attendees at a brief funeral service held on December 9, 1885, at the house on Lafayette Square. Interment services followed at Rock Creek Cemetery, but the actual burial was postponed until December 11, 1885, because of the inclement weather.[20] A few weeks later, Adams ordered a modest headstone as a temporary marker.[21] Later he commissioned a monument for her tomb from his friend, the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens, who created a masterpiece for her memorial.
Relationship with Elizabeth Sherman Cameron[edit]
Henry Adams first met Elizabeth Cameron in January 1881 at a reception in the drawing room of the house of John and Clara Hay.[22] Elizabeth was considered to be one of the most beautiful and intelligent women in the Washington area.
Elizabeth had grown up as Lizzie Sherman, the daughter of Judge Charles Sherman of Ohio, the niece of Secretary of the Treasury John Sherman in Hayes’s cabinet, and the niece of General William Tecumseh Sherman.
Her family had pressured Lizzie into a loveless marriage with Senator J. Donald Cameron, brokering a prenuptial agreement that provided her with the income from $160,000 worth of securities, a very large amount in 1878, equivalent to about $4 million in 2021.[23] The arranged marriage on May 9, 1878, united the reluctant 20-year-old beauty with a 44-year-old widower with six children. Eliza, his eldest, who had served as her father’s hostess, was now displaced by a stepmother the same age. The children never accepted her. The marriage was further strained by the Senator’s coarseness and indifference and his fondness for bourbon and the world of political corruption he inhabited, which is reflected in Adams’s novel Democracy.
Henry Adams initiated a correspondence with Lizzie on May 19, 1883, when she and her husband departed for Europe. That letter reflected his unhappiness with her departure and his longing for her return.[24]
It was the first of hundreds to follow for the next 35 years, recording a passionate yet unconsummated relationship. On December 7, 1884, one year before Clover’s suicide, Henry Adams wrote to Lizzie, “I shall dedicate my next poem to you. I shall have you carved over the arch of my stone doorway. I shall publish your volume of extracts with your portrait on the title page. None of these methods can fully express the extent to which I am yours.”[25]
Adams’s wife, Clover, who had written a weekly letter to her father throughout her marriage except for the brief hiatus during her breakdown along the Nile, never mentioned concerns or suspicions about Henry’s relationship with Lizzie. Nothing in the letters of her family or circle of friends indicates her distrust or unhappiness with her husband in this matter. Indeed, after her death, Henry found a letter from Clover to her sister Ellen which had not been posted. The survival of this letter was assured by its contents which read,
“If I had one single point of character or goodness, I would stand on that and grow back to life. Henry is more patient and loving than words can express—God might envy him—he bears and hopes and despairs hour after hour—Henry is beyond all words tenderer and better than all of you even.“[26]
On Christmas Day 1885, Adams sent one of Clover’s favorite pieces of jewelry to Cameron, requesting that she “sometimes wear it, to remind you of her.”[27]
Later life and travels[edit]
Just before the end of 1885, Adams moved into his newly completed mansion next door at 1603 H Street designed by his old friend, Henry Hobson Richardson, one of the most prominent architects of his day.[27]
Following his wife’s death, Adams took up a restless life as a globetrotter, traveling extensively, spending summers in Paris and winters in Washington, where he commissioned the Adams Memorial, designed by sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens and architect Stanford White for her grave site in Rock Creek Cemetery.
Writings by Adams[edit]
- 1876. Essays in Anglo-Saxon Law (with Henry Cabot Lodge, Ernest Young and J.L. Laughlin).
- 1879. Life of Albert Gallatin.
- 1879. The Writings of Albert Gallatin (as editor, three volumes).
- 1880. Democracy: An American Novel.
- 1882. John Randolph.
- 1884. Esther: A Novel (facsimile ed., 1938, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1187-2).
- 1889–1891. History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (9 volumes).
- 1891. Historical Essays.
- 1893. Tahiti: Memoirs of Arii Taimai e Marama of Eimee … Last Queen of Tahiti (facsimile of the 1901 Paris ed., 1947 Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1213-8).
- 1904. Mont Saint Michel and Chartres.
- 1911. The Life of George Cabot Lodge (facsimile ed. 1978, Scholars’ Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1316-6).
- 1918. The Education of Henry Adams.
- 1919. The Degradation of the Democratic Dogma.
- 1930–1938. Letters (Edited by W.C. Ford, two volumes).
- 1982. The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 1–3: 1858–1892 (Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels and Charles Vandersee).
- 1988. The Letters of Henry Adams, Volumes 4–6: 1892–1918 (Edited by J.C. Levenson, Ernest Samuels and Charles Vandersee).
Reprinted[edit]
- Democracy: An American Novel, Esther, Mont Saint Michel and Chartres, The Education of Henry Adams (Ernest Samuels, ed.) (Library of America, 1983) ISBN 978-0-940450-12-7
- History of the United States During the Administrations of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison (Earl N. Harbert, ed.) (Library of America, 1986) Vol I (Jefferson) ISBN 978-0-940450-34-9. Vol II (Madison) ISBN 978-0-940450-35-6.
See also[edit]
Death and burial[edit]
In 1912, Adams suffered a stroke, perhaps brought on by news of the sinking of the Titanic, for which he had return tickets to Europe. After the stroke, his scholarly output diminished, but he continued to travel, write letters, and host dignitaries and friends at his Washington, DC, home.
Henry Adams died at age 80 in Washington, DC. on March 27, 1918. He is interred beside his wife in Rock Creek Cemetery, Washington, DC.[28]
Views[edit]
Anglo-Saxonism[edit]
Considered a prominent Anglo-Saxonist of particularly the nineteenth-century, Adams has been portrayed by modern historians as anxious about the immigration of the era into the United States, particularly from Eastern Europe.[29]
More starkly put, Adams also wrote of his belief that “the dark races are gaining on us”.[30]
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He considered the U.S. Constitution itself as belonging to the Anglo-Saxon “race”, and as an expression of “Germanic freedom”.[31]
He went so far as to criticize fellow scholars for not being absolute enough in their Anglo-Saxonism, such as William Stubbs, whom he criticized for downplaying the significance, as he saw it, of “Germanic law” or hundred law in its contribution to English common law.[32]
Adams was nevertheless highly critical of the English. He referred to them as a “besotted race” from whom nothing good could come and “wanted nothing so much as to wipe England off the earth.”[33]
Antisemitism[edit]
Adams’s attitude towards Jews has been described as one of loathing. John Hay said that when Adams “saw Vesuvius reddening … [he] searched for a Jew stoking the fire.”[34]
Adams wrote: “I detest [the Jews], and everything connected with them, and I live only and solely with the hope of seeing their demise, with all their accursed Judaism. I want to see all the lenders at interest taken out and executed.”[35] To one friend, he wrote: “Bombard New York. I know no place that would be more improved by it. The chief population is Jew, and the rest is German Jew.”[36]
His letters were “peppered with a variety of antisemitic remarks”, according to historian Robert Michael, as in the following citations from historian Edward Saveth:
“We are in the hands of the Jews”, Adams lamented. “They can do what they please with our values.”
He advised against investment except in the form of gold locked in a safe deposit box.
“There you have no risk but the burglar.
In any other form you have the burglar, the Jew, the Czar, the socialist, and, above all, the total, irremediable, radical rottenness of our whole social, industrial, financial and political system.”[37]
Edward Chalfant’s definitive three-volume biography of Adams includes an exhaustive, well-documented examination of Adams’s “antisemitism” in its second volume, Improvement of the World.[38] He shows that most of the time when Adams says “Jews” he means “financiers.” This accords with the historical English usage referenced by the second definition under the Oxford English Dictionary entry, a usage that was common in Adams’s time and social milieu. It also accords with Adams’s frequent laments that “the eighteenth-century fabric of a priori, or moral, principles” had been replaced with “a bankers’ world” and that the “banking mind was obnoxious”.[39]
Adams esteemed, however, certain individual Jewish personages. In the “Dilettantism” chapter of The Education of Henry Adams he wrote of historian Francis Palgrave that “the reason of his superiority lay in his name, which was Cohen, and his mind which was Cohen also”. (Palgrave, the son of a Jewish stockbroker, had changed his name from Cohen upon marriage.) In the “Political Morality” chapter of the same volume he praises the Jewish statesman Benjamin Disraeli over the Gentiles Palmerston, Russell and Gladstone, writing: “Complex these gentlemen were not. Disraeli alone might, by contrast, be called complex.”[40]
Historical entropy[edit]
In 1910, Adams printed and distributed to university libraries and history professors the small volume A Letter to American Teachers of History proposing a “theory of history” based on the second law of thermodynamics and the principle of entropy.[41][42] This, essentially, states that all energy dissipates, order becomes disorder, and the earth will eventually become uninhabitable. In short, he applied the physics of dynamical systems of Rudolf Clausius, Hermann von Helmholtz, and William Thomson to the modeling of human history.
In his 1909 manuscript The Rule of Phase Applied to History, Adams attempted to use Maxwell’s demon as a historical metaphor, though he seems to have misunderstood and misapplied the principle.[43] Adams interpreted history as a process moving towards “equilibrium”, but he saw militaristic nations (he felt Germany pre-eminent in this class) as tending to reverse this process, a “Maxwell’s Demon of history.”
Adams made many attempts to respond to the criticism of his formulation from his scientific colleagues, but the work remained incomplete at Adams’s death in 1918. It was published posthumously.[44]
Robert E. Lee[edit]
Adams said, “I think that Lee should have been hanged. It was all the worse that he was a good man and a fine character and acted conscientiously. It’s always the good men who do the most harm in the world.”[45]
*** thus proving even great men can be fools 😉
The South did lose the Civil War, with 250,000 brave white Confederates dying, and the North tragically lost 500,000 men. But the mere fact that the Southerners, who had lived alongside Blacks for two centuries and knew Blacks up-close and very well, felt so strongly about racial differences gave the whole white world a stark warning that mixing with negroes is suicidal for any white nation.
Also, Adams was blind to the fact that the negro problem had not been solved at all, but was festering — and entirely because the Blacks had not been shipped out after the Civil War to another country or back to Africa as Abraham Lincoln had originally intended.
During the era when Henry Adams was writing, the Blacks who stayed down south after 1865 were kept down by open racial-segregation laws and by ther Ku Klux Klan.
And in the North, it was a common understanding that suppressed black power amongst white cops, white judges, white prosecutors, and white real estate agents, who “steered” blacks to black neighborhoods and wrote up racial “covenants” — clauses in real-estate deeds banning the sale of a white-owned home to any negro.
In fact, the Second Klan was most powerful up in the NORTH!
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…….Study: Women Store DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Made Love With. Women “harvest” every male’s DNA, according to a new study.
by Daisy Magnum May 3, 2018
May 31, 2018
Study: Women Store DNA From Every Man They’ve Ever Made Love With
Women retain and carry living DNA from every man with whom they have sexual intercourse. This bombshell discovery has been unearthed during a brand-new study by the University of Seattle and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center..
The scientific study actually discovered the shocking information by accident.
Scientists were initially attempting to identify whether women who were pregnant with a son are more susceptible to specific neurological illnesses that take place more regularly in males. But as the scientists picked apart the female brain, the research study began to drift hugely off course.
Women harvest DNA
What they actually found, however, is that the female brain is far more complex than we previously believed. The research study found that female brains typically harvest “male microchimerism.” Or, to put it simply; they found the existence of male DNA that stemmed from other individuals. These cells are genetically different from those that make up the “host” female.
According to the research, the study reports:
“63% of the females (37 of 59) tested harbored male microchimerism in the brain. And “Male microchimerism was present in multiple brain regions.”
So 63% of women carry male DNA cells that live in their brains.
Clearly, the scientists wanted to know where the male DNA originated from.
Perhaps you would naturally assume it was inherited from the woman’s father?
No. Your father’s DNA integrates with your mother’s to create your special DNA.
So where else could it come from?
Through the study, the researchers presumed that the most likely answer was that male DNA found living in the female brain came from a male pregnancy. That was the safe, politically correct assumption. However, these researchers were living in denial.
Since, when they conducted an autopsy of the brains of women who had actually never, ever even been pregnant, not to mention never had a son, they STILL discovered male DNA cells in the female brain.
At this point, the scientists were baffled.
Despite their confusion, they did their best to cover-up the proof up until they could understand and discuss it.
They buried it in various sub-studies and posts, but if you sort through them all you will find the damning declaration.
There’s one line that gives the game away and describes precisely where these male DNA cells originate from. What are they so afraid of?
“CONCLUSIONS: Male microchimerism was not irregular in females without sons.
“Besides known pregnancies, other possible sources of male microchimerism include unrecognized spontaneous abortion, disappeared male twin, an older sibling transferred by the maternal blood circulation, or SEXUAL INTERCOURSE.
“Male microchimerism was substantially more frequent and levels were greater in women with induced abortion than in women with other pregnancy histories.
“More research studies are needed to figure out specific origins of male microchimerism in women.”
So according to the scientists, the possible sources of the male DNA cells residing in the women’s brains are:
–an abortion the female was unaware of
–a male twin that disappeared
–an older sibling transferred by the maternal flow
–sexual intercourse
Thinking about the reality that 63% of women have male DNA cells living in the recesses of their brain, which of the above possibilities do you think is the most likely origin of the male DNA?
The first three possibilities apply to only a very small portion of women.
They could not possibly explain the high figure of 63%.
The fourth choice? It’s rather more typical. The answer is 4. Sex.
This has crucial ramifications for females. DNA stays with women for life.
Every male you absorb spermatazoa from becomes a living part of you for life. The women autopsied in this research study were elderly. Some had been carrying the living male DNA inside them for well over 50 years.
Sperm is alive. It is living cells. When it is injected into you, it swims and swims until it crashes headlong into a wall, and then it attaches and burrows into your flesh.
If it’s in your mouth it swims and climbs into your nasal passages, inner ear, and behind your eyes.
Then it digs in.
It enters your bloodstream and collects in your brain and spine.
Like something out of a sci-fi movie, it becomes a part of you and you cannot eliminate it.
We are only now beginning to understand the full power and implications of sexual intercourse.
Race-mixing pushed by a jew-run German tv network, RTL, with the hook of the show being people date in the nude.
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How facile, therefore, for the otherwise great Adams to advocate hanging for Robert E. Lee. The negro problem that worried Lee had only been suppressed, not solved!
How sad also that Adams seems to have not understood that it was the very jews whom he loathed who had brought the negroes here to our civilized shores in the first place!
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