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1838–1918 United States

Henry Brooks Adams (16 February 1838 – 27 March 1918) was an American historian, journalist, novelist and educator. He was the great-grandson of John Adams, grandson of John Quincy Adams and son of Charles Francis Adams Sr.

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Also known as: Adams, Henry, Adams, Henry Brooks, Henry Brooks Adams

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Like most vigorous-minded men, seeing that there was no stopping-place between dogma and negation, he preferred to accept dogma. Of all weaknesses he most disliked timid and half-hearted faith. He would rather have jumped at once to Strong's pure denial, than yield an inch to the argument that a mystery was to be paltered with because it could not be explained.

Esther: A Novel (1884)

Man has mounted science, and is now run away with. I firmly believe that before many centuries more, science will be the master of men. The engines he will have invented will be beyond his strength to control. Someday science may have the existence of mankind in its power, and the human race commit suicide, by blowing up the world.

I turn green in bed at midnight if I think of the horror of a year's warfare in the Philippines ... We must slaughter a million or two foolish Malays in order to give them the comforts of flannel petticoats and electric railways.

Never esteem anything as of advantage to you that will make you break your word or lose your self-respect.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henry Adams (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.