We, of course, see both Adams and Chartres as elements of the distance past, before the 20th-century erased so much, and we see much more in common between Adams and Chartres than Adams did himself. Michel particularly interesting today is that Adams wrote in 1905 from the perspective of modernity, contrasting that to the totally different world of 12th- and 13th-century France. Michel is more elliptical and philosophical. The Education is a fairly straightforward book Mont St. Primarily, though, it’s an autobiography. Michel in some ways, for it contrasts the modern industrial world, symbolized by the dynamo, with the ancient world of Chartres and the Virgin Mary. That book covers the second half of the 19th Century, through which Adams lived and onto which he turned an analytic eye. But by reading Adams, we can at least educate ourselves, and educate the Remnant, as Isaiah did before the renewal.Īdams, who lived from 1838 to 1918, and was descended from both John Adams and John Quincy Adams, also wrote the more famous The Education of Henry Adams. Now, he and his type have been replaced by stupid studies of so-called “white privilege,” and the triumphant martryologies of the past have been replaced by the mewling victimologies of the present, much to the detriment of everyone involved, and most of all to the detriment of any useful intellectual discourse, as can be seen from a cursory view of the comments section of any article in the New York Times. Henry Adams is the type of author, and an author, whom every educated American once read and discussed.
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