Found in The Grammar of Science, chapter XXXI of “The Education of Henry Adams,”
is the news that Mr. Adams knew no more than a firefly, or a moth
about rays
or about race
or sex
or ennui
or a bar of music
or a pang of love
or a grain of musk
or of phosphorus
or conscience
or duty
or the force of Euclidian geometry
or non-Euclidian
or heat
or light
or osmosis
or electrolysis
or the magnet
or ether
or vis inertiae
or gravitation
or cohesion
or elasticity
or surface tension
or capillary attraction
or Brownian motion
or of some scores, or thousands, or millions of chemical attractions,
repulsions or indifferences which were busy within and without him and me, both.
Dave Read