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The education of Henry Adams

Chapter 32

CHAPTER XXXII

THE GRAMMAR OF SCIENCE (1903)
Or all the travels made by man since the voyages of Dante, this new exploration along the shores of Multiplicity and Complex- ity promised to be the longest, though as yet it had barely touched two familiar regions —race and sex. Even within these narrow seas the navigator lost his bearings and followed the winds as they blew. By chance it happened that Raphael Pum- pelly helped the winds; for, being in Washington on his way to Central Asia he fell to talons with Adams about these matters, and said that Willard Gibbs thought he got most help from a