By Dr Patrick ODoughrty

Quincy, MA—Patrick ODougherty from Southwest Minneapolis had An Education based on the Great Books. 

+An Autobiography of Henry Adams is a bookmark. This is one of the great autobiographies ever written. Augustine’s Confessions is another. Rousseau’s Confessions are a third. The great strength of Henry Adams Autobiography is its scientific dimensions.  It is the foundation of a scientific examination of self.

Follows is Brainstorming Dithering Reflection  Written against the Table of Contents of The Education of Henry Adams

+Boston: Compare Boston to St Paul. Both cities have erratic streets made erratic to deflect easy military conquest.

+Washington DC is modeled after Paris France. 

+Harvard College was built as Yale was built on a Rock Solid Foundation of slavery and the slave trade.

+Berlin is a great City of history, by history and for history.

+Rome has 7 hills. St Paul has 7 hills.

+Treason is the reason for America.

+Diplomacy is based on deception

+Foes or Friends are both like candles

+Political Morality is often short lived.

+The Battle of the Rams is ongoing

+Eccentricity increases with age.

+Perfection of Human Society is nowhere.

+Dilettantism relates to kibitzers.

+Darwin dropped out of medical school. 

+ Press ham on Irish Rye is a new ecumenism.

+President Grant and Bud Grant has the same root as immiGRANT.

+Free Fight and the frontier thesis in American history come together in the Civil War.

+Chaos is what happens as battle plans and battles start.

+Failure is not trying

+ 20 years after Obama.and I am alive.

+Chicago 1893 -1992 Patrick Buchanan announced culture wars.

-Silence 1894-1898 Nature’s premier weapon is silence.

+The Dynamo and the Virgin now becomes the motherboard and the strobe light.

+Twilight is the time my uncle John ODougherty died.

+Teufelsdrockh relates to timely.

+Height of Knowledge is self knowledge. 

+Abyss of Ignorance is losing years to Hedonism.

+Inertia is relationships is not a good idea. Motion is the key to great relationships.

+Grammar of Science: The German Language sentences end in verbs. This makes for a very set of declensions.

+Vis Nova runs in cycles.

+A Dynamic Theory of History Coitus Ergo Sum

+A Law of Acceleration is taking the Governor off your car engine.

+Nunc Age I woke up! Thankful, thankful, thankful!

Ref. The Education of Henry Adams, An Autobiography, Modern Library Classics 1917.