ABSTRACT
Henry Adams’s fatalism was contradictory. He was, at seventy, still consistent with the younger self who had written in 1870, “The Administration—A Radical Indictment!” In 1907 he was indicting not the administration of the Republican party, but the administration of the universe. In his daily life he was very much alone. He lacked supports both in his outward relations with the world of men and in his interior relations with himself. Adams lived eleven years after passing out copies of The Education among his friends, and pretending not to care about their reactions. He continued his private studies, both those of a scientific, mathematical, and statistical nature and those of a historical and sociological nature. And although he attempted to tame his mind to like the future, he could not.
