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The work of internal government has become the task of controlling the thousands of fifth-rate men.
Henry Adams
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Henry Adams
Age: 80 †
Born: 1838
Born: February 16
Died: 1918
Died: March 27
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Historian Of The Modern Age
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Boston
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Frances Snow Compton
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No man likes to have his intelligence or good faith questioned, especially if he has doubts about it himself.
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Even theologians, even the great theologians of the thirteenth century, even Saint Thomas Aquinas himself did not trust to faith alone, or assume the existence of God.
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[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.
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