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The Education of Henry Adams reflects his encounter with education.
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J S Mill, Positive Philosophy of A Comte science of society based on biology
influenced Henry and Charles
L H Morgan, ethnologist, Ancient Society
on the germ theory of civil and social institutions

"Rule of Phase Applied to History", 1909
His comment: "mere intellectual plaything like a puzzle"- Henry Adams
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Henry's ideas were adopted and worked over by brother Brooks Adams