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Essay Galaxy - Henry Adams
The Education of the Henry Adams reviews Adams’s and the United States’s education and growth during the 19th century. Adams was an old man who had Puritan beliefs about sex and religion. In this autobiography, Adams voices his skepticism about man’s newfound power to control the direction of history, in particular, the exploding world of science and technology, where all certainties of the future have vanished (anb.org, 1).
Adams grew up in the United Stated where he was a Puritan. Puritans believed that sex (women especially) was just a form of fertility and reproduction; otherwise “sex was a sin” (Adams, 384). “American art, like the American language and American education, was as far as possible sexless” (Adams, 385). The only sculptures and paintings of women that Adams viewed with understanding were those like the V....
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