Once more! this is a story of education, not of adventure! It is meant to help young men - or such as have intelligence enough to seek help - but it is not meant to amuse them. What one did - or did not do - with one's education, after getting it, need trouble the inquirer in no way; it is a personal matter only which would confuse him. Perhaps Henry Adams was not worth educating; most keen judges incline to think that barely one man in a hundred owns a mind capable of reacting to any purpose on the forces that surround him, and fully half of these react wrongly. (Henry Adams)

Once more! this is a story of education, not of adventure! It is meant to help young men - or such as have intelligence enough to seek help - but it is not meant to amuse them. What one did - or did not do - with one's education, after getting it, need trouble the inquirer in no way; it is a personal matter only which would confuse him. Perhaps Henry Adams was not worth educating; most keen judges incline to think that barely one man in a hundred owns a mind capable of reacting to any purpose on the forces that surround him, and fully half of these react wrongly.

Henry Adams

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