Excerpt from Authors and I He was the most modest of men, probably the most aggressively modest man of the century. His modesty was so modest that it blossomed into a rare flower Of vanity, a vanity that a casuist would find it extremely difficult to diagnose or to condemn. Yet Henry Adams was modest, and self-depreciatory to a degree that almost amounts to genius. What then would have been his amazement if he could have known that in 1919 his Education, which he never even regarded as a finished work, was, ex ...
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Excerpt from Authors and I He was the most modest of men, probably the most aggressively modest man of the century. His modesty was so modest that it blossomed into a rare flower Of vanity, a vanity that a casuist would find it extremely difficult to diagnose or to condemn. Yet Henry Adams was modest, and self-depreciatory to a degree that almost amounts to genius. What then would have been his amazement if he could have known that in 1919 his Education, which he never even regarded as a finished work, was, ex cluding novels, a best seller. It appeared in every list in the Books in Demand at Public Libraries and it usually came first. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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